@seth-arnold, You are talking about a different type of vulnerability scanning that is not part of the Qualys service in question (External vulnerability scan, "black box" scan methodology). PCI DSS also mandates regular internal scans and penetration tests. Qualys, as well as other vendors provides such services.
As for determining package version directly vs. by version banner, I don't see any difference *in this case* as by default full ubuntu- specific package version is displayed in SSH version banner and Qualys requires users not to interfere with the scanning. The issue that @root(mysky) has stems from the fact that Qualys is usually very fast when including a vulnerable product in their detector but sometimes slow to exclude fixed versions as in this case. This isn't a big deal as they have False Positive Report mechanism that allows a live service representative to asses the situation and allow your system to pass even if the automatic scanner detects a non-existent vulnerability. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to openssh in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1794629 Title: CVE-2018-15473 - User enumeration vulnerability Status in openssh package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in openssh source package in Trusty: Fix Released Status in openssh source package in Xenial: Fix Released Status in openssh source package in Bionic: Fix Released Status in openssh source package in Cosmic: Fix Released Bug description: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15473 OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c. Fixed in Debian: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4280 Currently pending triage? https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu- security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-15473.html To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/1794629/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
