In a nut shell, I get the sense that the distributions SL and CentOS
are not altering these for their respective distributions.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Jeremiah Jahn
<jerem...@goodinassociates.com> wrote:
> I'm using it for SL6. The problem is in openscap-cpe-oval.xml. The
> test for release is searching on RedHat only.
>
> I've changed mine to the following: notice the (redhat|sl) on the
> second line. You should be able to change it to whatever the
> centos-release rpm says. I can't remember right now if SSG is where I
> got the original xml file, or if it's the one from open-scap. It's
> very possible that you'll have to make sure that you'll have to alter
> the ssg-rhel6-cpe-dictionary.xml to point to your altered cpe-oval
> file. I've attached them just incase, but it took some tweaking.
>
> <rpminfo_state id="oval:org.open-scap.cpe.rhel:ste:6" version="1"
> xmlns="http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5#linux";>
>                   <name operation="pattern match">^(redhat|sl)-release</name>
>                   <version operation="pattern match">^6[^\d]</version>
>             </rpminfo_state>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Greg Elin <grege...@gitmachines.com> wrote:
>> I would like to start this thread up again.
>>
>> Any good Urls to explanations on all this is appreciated!
>>
>> I'm about to spend the rest of the day trying to understand CPE and why I
>> was able to get results scanning CentOS 6.5 on one AMI I configured back in
>> Jan/Feb without rebuilding the source but and now getting "not applicable"
>> across the board for CentOS 6.5. (I may have git cloned the Fedora Repo in
>> Jan/Feb while I am using EPEL repos more recently.)
>>
>> My plan is to examine the respective installs, read whatever docs I can
>> find, and look at NIST SP 800-126 (the SCAP spec -
>> http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-126-rev2/SP800-126r2.pdf).
>>
>> Help in anyway to speed me on my journey is appreciated!
>>
>> Greg Elin
>> http://govready.org - Making FISMA compliance easier for innovators
>>
>> email: grege...@gitmachines.com
>> phone: 917-304-3488
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Stuart Green <stuart.gr...@doccentrics.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>
>>>>> From: "Stuart Green" <stuart.gr...@doccentrics.com>
>>>>> To: "SCAP Security Guide" <scap-security-guide@lists.fedorahosted.org>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 2:54:57 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: Anyone using rhel6 ssg for centos6?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: "Simon Lukasik" <sluka...@redhat.com>
>>>>>>> To: "SCAP Security Guide" <scap-security-guide@lists.fedorahosted.org>
>>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 1:05:10 PM
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Anyone using rhel6 ssg for centos6?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 06/18/2014 03:41 PM, Rui Pedro Bernardino wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> … it seems OpenSCAP is using it’s own ‘openscap-cpe-dict.xml’ and
>>>>>>>> that’s
>>>>>>>> why the SSG platform check “works”. The checks in
>>>>>>>> ‘ssg-rhel6-cpe-dictionary.xml’ fail always.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am sorry for the late response, but I would like to put a bit of
>>>>>>> light
>>>>>>> into this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OpenSCAP uses its inbuilt CPE dictionary when the CPE is not provided
>>>>>>> from the outside. This behavior is in line with SCAP requirements for
>>>>>>> certified scanner.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you are not satisfied with inbuilt CPE name you may need to specify
>>>>>>> --cpe command-line option to the scanner.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For review of inbuilt CPE names run:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>        # oscap --version
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In OpenSCAP upstream we try to give good guidance on: how a particular
>>>>>>> CPE name shall be implemented [1]. We welcome comments, patches, as
>>>>>>> well
>>>>>>> as implementation of new platforms.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I remember, I have recently added CPE names for CentOS 5, 6, and 7.
>>>>>>> However, I am unsure whether this new names are been released to the
>>>>>>> downstreams.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is the commit in question:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/openscap.git/commit/?id=e09f29496081a0525cda0b18299bccb9803baf76
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is part of the master branch, there have been no releases that
>>>>>> contain
>>>>>> it yet. The next release with this change will be openscap 1.1.0. This
>>>>>> commit may be a good candidate for a downstream patch in the CentOS
>>>>>> package.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes please!!
>>>>
>>>> Please lobby at the appropriate place - https://bugs.centos.org
>>>
>>> To clarify, you're asking me to raise a request detailing Simon's commit
>>> on bugs.centos.org?
>>>
>>>
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