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Red Hat announced compatibility certification with Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) definitions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 security advisories. Red Hat will now produce and support OVAL patch definitions to provide a structured and machine-readable version of advisories, allowing OVAL-compatible tools to accurately test for the presence of vulnerabilities.
With OVAL compatibility, Red Hat Enterprise Linux users can benefit from the utilization of third-party, OVAL-compatible patch auditing and compliance tools to audit their systems. By providing an alternative, machine-readable view of Red Hat security errata advisories, users can now integrate data about vulnerabilities from the Red Hat Security Response team into their existing vulnerability management processes. All users will continue to use Red Hat Network to manually or automatically obtain updates in addition to this new security view.
Jun 25, 2006, 09:45 PM
