Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2017, 14:04:24 CEST schrieb Michael Wiegand: Hi Michael,
thank you very much or this detailed explanation. Yes, I agree, these changes in very early cve and so on are mostly small. Happy and glad, to know, that these are really changes and it is not a bug in your feed or on your servers. And also to you, very thanks for all the great work and that people may use openvas or free. And that is and will be open-source further on, so it can be trusted. Can 't tell it often enough! Best regards and a nice week / weekend and waves to all your team! Hans > * Hans [23. Aug 2017]: > > I just wondered, why old feeds from 2009 and so on are still different so > > that they are downloaded again. I would expect, changes only happen to > > newer feeds, let's say 2017 or maybe 2016, but not prior. > > Normally these are changes to upstream source files at e.g. NIST which > are propagate through our feeds. > > As you can see (for example) at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/data-feeds > changes to the yearly files happen quite often, even years after their > initial publication. > > From my experience these changes are often quite small (as you observed > in the delta) and happen for a variety of reasons. > > As to whether these changes add substantial amounts of new information > would be another discussion; ultimately it is the upstream data provider > who makes the changes at their own discretion. > > Regards, > > > Michael _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
