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Vulnerability Assessment Details

Enable local security checks

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Obtains the remote OS name and installed packages

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

This scripts logs into the remote host using SSH, RSH, RLOGIN, Telnet
or local commands and extracts the list of installed packages.
To work properly, this script requires that you configure it with a valid
SSH public key to use and eventually an SSH passphrase if the SSH public
key is passphrase-protected or that you run it against localhost.

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Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Tenable Network Security

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