On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:02:14AM +0100, A J Hammond wrote:
Hi,
> The knowledgebase does show all the Hotfixes detected in
> SMB/Registry/HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/HotFix/
>
> A bit of detective work lead me to a subroutine in smb_hotfixes.inc
> called hotfix_missing which reads the KB and parses the hotfix entries to
> decide whether they exist or not.
Fixed in CVS.
> It's very odd that this should occur only to me. I find myself wondering if
> it has to do with the platform I'm running Nessus from - Novell Desktop Linux
> 9 (basically Suse 9.2 with Novells branding) as I don't recall ever having
> this issue when I've used Nessus in the past.
That's because you seem to be using an account which has the privileges
to read HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/HotFix/ but
not HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Updates/
Thanks,
-- Renaud
_______________________________________________
Nessus mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
