It will if the problem is a delay, but if the service can´t respond it will always give you an error. Be careful raising that timeout can increase significantly the total scan duration.
Fabio > No dia 25/01/2017, às 15:03, tatooin <[email protected]> escreveu: > > Well the only thing I see is the NVT timeout error, which seems to happen > fairly often on many different NVTs. I have added "plugins_timeout = 1500" in > /etc/openvas/openvassd.conf to raise the default timeout. > I suppose it should fix the issue for new scans ? > > Thanks > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Fischer <[email protected] > <mailto:christian%20fischer%20%[email protected]%3e>> > To: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Openvas-discuss] NVT with error severity level > Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:40:17 +0100 > > Hi, > > On 23.01.2017 19:12, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to get a list of hosts vulnerable to a particular NVT. In > this case, 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100610 (JBoss Enterprise Application > Platform Multiple Vulnerabilities). Looking at this particular NVT in > GSA, and clicking on the "Show scan results for this NVT" menu, takes me > to the list of hosts vulnerable to this NVT, as expected. > > > > However, on the listing, the vulnerability appears with a severity set > to "Error" on all vulnerable hosts (see attached screenshot if it goes > through), while on the NVT page detail, the severity score is set to 5.0 > (Medium). I also notice that the location is set to "General/TCP", while > I would expect here to see the application port (8080). Is this a bug or > am I missing something ? And in that particular case, are the results > reliable ? > > > > Thank you > > > > System Info: > > openvas-manager-6.0.9-0kali1 > > openvas-scanner-5.0.7-3 > > > > On Kali Linux Rolling. All packages up to date. > > an "Error" severity mostly means that e.g. the NVT timed out after a > specific time or similar. You can get this information if you open the > Reports page for that specific report where the error happened: > > http://docs.greenbone.net/GSM-Manual/gos-3.1/en/scanning.html#reports > <http://docs.greenbone.net/GSM-Manual/gos-3.1/en/scanning.html#reports> > > Then open the "Report: Error Messages" link as shown on the "Different > views of the same report." image. > > Regards, > > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
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