Onderwerp: Scanning Software Bugs

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

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/nes.../msg00272.html

Hugo.

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