What do you guys think of scanning and reporting of cumulative vulnerabilities?
For example. If you have vulnerability A that supercedes vulnerability B. Nessus will report both A and B as vulnerable, but for patching only Vulnerability A needs to be patched. So why report vulnerability B? Should the scanner ingore superceded vulnerabilities? Is the only plus to reporting both A and B is to have a history of old vulnerabilities not patched? What about metrics? A and B might be vulnerable but only patch A needs to be installed. If an admin gets a vuln report with both A and B, can they easily figure out oh, this is cumulative, so I only need to install A, or are they going to try to install both. want to get more opinions on this. __________________________________ Albert R. Campa _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
