Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:02:02PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> I can think off-hand of at least one other security related tool that
> needs frequent updating of a ruleset: nessus. It is an active probing
> tool that scans a network for vulnerable systems. If it doesn't have a
> current set of rules, it may fail to identify vulnerable systems,
> leading to the same issues that snort has.
Yes, and the upstream and Debian maintainers are requesting the removal of
the very old version from woody, see bug #183524. :|
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