I would like to start this thread up again.

Any good Urls to explanations on all this is appreciated!

I'm about to spend the rest of the day trying to understand CPE and why I was able to get results scanning CentOS 6.5 on one AMI I configured back in Jan/Feb without rebuilding the source but and now getting "not applicable" across the board for CentOS 6.5. (I may have git cloned the Fedora Repo in Jan/Feb while I am using EPEL repos more recently.)

My plan is to examine the respective installs, read whatever docs I can find, and look at NIST SP 800-126 (the SCAP spec - http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-126-rev2/SP800-126r2.pdf).

Help in anyway to speed me on my journey is appreciated!

Greg Elin
http://govready.org - Making FISMA compliance easier for innovators

email: gregelin@gitmachines.com
phone: 917-304-3488






On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Stuart Green <stuart.green@doccentrics.com> wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Green" <stuart.green@doccentrics.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 2:54:57 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone using rhel6 ssg for centos6?



----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Lukasik" <slukasik@redhat.com>
To: "SCAP Security Guide" <scap-security-guide@lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 1:05:10 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone using rhel6 ssg for centos6?

On 06/18/2014 03:41 PM, Rui Pedro Bernardino wrote:
… it seems OpenSCAP is using it’s own ‘openscap-cpe-dict.xml’ and that’s
why the SSG platform check “works”. The checks in
‘ssg-rhel6-cpe-dictionary.xml’ fail always.

Hello,

I am sorry for the late response, but I would like to put a bit of light
into this.

OpenSCAP uses its inbuilt CPE dictionary when the CPE is not provided
from the outside. This behavior is in line with SCAP requirements for
certified scanner.

If you are not satisfied with inbuilt CPE name you may need to specify
--cpe command-line option to the scanner.

For review of inbuilt CPE names run:

       # oscap --version

In OpenSCAP upstream we try to give good guidance on: how a particular
CPE name shall be implemented [1]. We welcome comments, patches, as well
as implementation of new platforms.

I remember, I have recently added CPE names for CentOS 5, 6, and 7.
However, I am unsure whether this new names are been released to the
downstreams.
This is the commit in question:

https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/openscap.git/commit/?id=e09f29496081a0525cda0b18299bccb9803baf76

It is part of the master branch, there have been no releases that contain
it yet. The next release with this change will be openscap 1.1.0. This
commit may be a good candidate for a downstream patch in the CentOS
package.

Yes please!!
Please lobby at the appropriate place - https://bugs.centos.org
To clarify, you're asking me to raise a request detailing Simon's commit on bugs.centos.org?