[ubuntu-hardened] OVAL shows vulnerabilities when software is not installed

Steve Beattie sbeattie at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 25 16:51:11 UTC 2016


On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Jesus Linares wrote:
> OVAL files are failing again. It is due to the following error:
> 
> > File 'com.ubuntu.xenial.cve.oval.xml' line 65535: Element '{
> > http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5}criterion', attribute
> > 'negate': 'True' is not a valid value of the atomic type 'xs:boolean'.
> 
> 
> I think it could be fixed by changing "*T*rue" for "*t*rue".

Ah nice catch. I've fixed it and caused the OVAL files to be
regenerated, and verified them with "oscap oval validate".

Thanks!

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Steve Beattie
<sbeattie at ubuntu.com>
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