From owner-freebsd-security Fri Mar 16 12:43:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF3937B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:43:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9F13F66B25; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:43:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:43:54 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ashley Penney Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's vunerable? Message-ID: <20010316124354.A98989@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <3AB1DBF9.C721E3D6@vianetworks.co.uk> <20010316121158.A17693@daphne.unloved.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wac7ysb48OaltWcw" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010316121158.A17693@daphne.unloved.org>; from ashp@unloved.org on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:11:58PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:11:58PM +0100, Ashley Penney wrote: > One suggestion I would have is to pop to www.nessus.org, and use the > scanner they provide. It can output reports in HTML and so forth, with > pretty graphics for PHB's. However, it can sometimes trigger false > alarms so I'd run it against the boxes, and check the results by hand. >=20 > [I've found this very useful when I suddenly get thrown into 500 boxes, > all running different versions of OS's.] Always be careful trusting the results of automated scanners, because they can never contain a database of ALL known vulnerabilities, so your system may have other problems than what's noted there. It may be useful as a backup to make sure you haven't missed anything, though. Kris --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6snsKWry0BWjoQKURAu9IAJ4znVXrVf2ST0kyvVICmENlR7wtTgCfdlSu P7/S2BiRNrjjXh871TFS4Cw= =aHJw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message