On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:36:05PM -0500, Kevin Davis wrote:
> >In the past, plugins "colliding" have occured very rarely. If we have a
> >Tenable plugin in CVS while someone else develops a GPL plugin, the GPL
> >plugin won't make it. There won't be redundant plugins.
>
> So what I am wondering is that in the case of the important new critical
> vuln that everyone is anxious to check their systems for, that in this
> case, one might have to wait a week to get access to the Tenable plugin.
Yes. You can buy a subscription if you are the kind of network who has
too many hosts to keep track of to manually determine if a vulnerability
is there, though.
> This would be if the Tenable plugin were submitted before the GPL plugin
> and they were redundant. I would presume if the GPL plugin were submitted
> first that it would make it in and it would be immediately available?
Provided the test works, of course. However, if there's a new MS advisory
tomorrow and that I receive a plugin written as quickly as possible
which basically does not do the job (but with an author who assumes that
the plugin will get fixed by the community), then I'll probably reject
it except if a trivial fix can make it work.
-- Renaud
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