Re: MBSA 1.2

[Rohan Amin <rohan () rohanamin com>]

There is a free version of Nessus at http://www.nessus.org.  This
version requires the scanning engine to be installed on Unix.  There is a
Windows front-end, but the Unix scanning component is required.

Tenable Network Security offers a commercial version of Nessus called
NeWT.  This version runs on Windows. http://www.tenablesecurity.com/newt.html.

There is a "Windows" category of plugins that should report most of
what you are looking for.  Also, to clarify a statement I made before about
the registry: that applies if you write your own checks to read the
remote registry.  Many of the Nessus plugins for common issues like
MS03-026 and MS03-039 actually check for the vulnerability (not just
read the registry to see if the patch is installed).

If you want to stick with MBSA, you can authenticate to the IPC$ share
of the machines beforehand and then run MBSA:

net use \\192.168.1.5\IPC$ password /user:Administrator

So, if you have your IPs in one file, you can write a script that will
loop over them and attempt to 'net use' the IPC$ share multiple times
(with the various usernames/passwords that are being used within your
environment).  Just be careful you don't lock yourself out.

Regards,

Rohan





On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:16:06PM +0100, Nagy Gergely wrote:
> Does Nessus run on XP?
> How can I set it to scan all the Microsoft patches on the given system and
> vulnerabilites?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rohan Amin [mailto:rohan () rohanamin com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:51 AM
> To: Nagy Gergely
> Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: MBSA 1.2
>
> A colleague and I have had success with using Nessus
> (http://www.nessus.org) for this purpose.  Just modify smb_login.nasl
> to use the various Administrator passwords that you have.  Nessus
> already includes a few checks for some patches, but if you need more
> you can always write some (its quite easy using NASL).  Of course, you
> are trusting the registry to give you accurate information but it
> might be better than nothing.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rohan
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:01:46PM +0100, Nagy Gergely wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a very heterogenous infrasturcture, with most PC's logged into NDS.
> > What is the use of MBSA (that requires local admin priv) if all the PC's
> > have different local admin passwords?
> > In this case, am I not able to scan the situation on the whole network?
> > Then what else tool could I use to determine the state of patches?
> >
> > Br,
> >
> > Gery
> >
> >
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