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Dan.Creed@thecreeds.net
04/08/05, 22:15
Do scanning software bugs (the kind that crash a whole system) count as vulnerabilities... I found a bug in ISS System Scanner where if a certain AIX patch (only in HACMP clustered systems) isn't applied it brings down the whole system.
Thanks,
Dan.Creed@thecreeds.net
Dan.Creed@thecreeds.net wrote:
>Do scanning software bugs (the kind that crash a whole system) count as vulnerabilities... I found a bug in ISS System Scanner where if a certain AIX patch (only in HACMP clustered systems) isn't applied it brings down the whole system.
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brings down which system? the ISS box or the AIX box being scanned?
-KF
Hugo van der Kooij
09/08/05, 16:55
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 Dan.Creed@thecreeds.net wrote:
> Do scanning software bugs (the kind that crash a whole system) count as vulnerabilities... I found a bug in ISS System Scanner where if a certain AIX patch (only in HACMP clustered systems) isn't applied it brings down the whole system.
This is rather OLD. See for example:
http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2005-February/msg00272.html
Hugo.
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