On Monday 18 June 2007 21:31:20 Javier wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 07:36:19PM +0100, Tim Brown wrote: > > Okay, talking to Debian Security folk: > > > > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/secure-testing/data/DSA/list > > Actually, that is not the complete info, the full info is available at > http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/english/security/?root=webwml
This is more accurate, but less nice to parse and doesn't seem to give such good information about the vulnerability. > That one includes both the package information data and the description of > the DSAs themselves. That is what is used for website generation. > > > Is a machine readable version of the DSA, so I'm going to hack up some > > perl to generate the scripts next :). > > There's already some scripts @ the CVS site to parse the DSA data ( It's horrible python unless you mean DSA2nasl which appears to be proprietary :) > > Javier, is this useful to the current nessus > > package in Debian, I'm looking at my install and the latest DSA check is > > DSA-869. > > That could be useful for the Nessus package, but the local security checks > from Nessus (which are GPL) already include that information (and I provide > them in the nessus-plugins package). Why regenerate them? The Nessus local security checks in unstable don't seem up to date, as I say, the latest appears to be 869. Tim -- Tim Brown <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/> _______________________________________________ Openvas-plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-plugins
