[Openvas-plugins] Breaking up NVT Description

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Monday 06 February 2012 22:40:24 Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> If we agree quickly on the elements it might be possible to
> implement a work-around into OpenVAS-5 to already process the new
> style as soon as it appears in the NVTs. Which could reduce
> the waiting time to until OpenVAS-4 retires.

how about this approach:
We add a scanner preference "tags_added_to_desc"
which contains a list like "xrefs, cve, solution".
In other words, a list of tag names that are then
added by the scanner when sending the result text.
Like before it was done with CVE/BID.

So, users can specify what they want to have in the results
even after we broke up the descriptions.

We can even backport easily to OpenVAS-4 so that those users
can gain this functionality and we can earlier start to break up.
With a default that mimicks the old behaviour.

What do you think?

Best

	Jan
 

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