getting the running patch level

[olli hauer]

On 2012-08-10 16:40, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Roberto <robertot at redix.it> wrote:
>>
>> So as far I understand, if the kernel is not updated by the update process, it
>> is not possible to get via "uname" the currently patch level.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> This has been discussed a number of time, but there are no nice and
> simple solution. There is a simple solution if we just update the
> kernel always, but that's a hack IMO.
> 
> While the problem seems rather simple, there are many corner cases
> making it hard to solve. It should be solved so people can get this
> information, personally I just haven't had the time to work on it.
> 

Maybe this information can be hold in an additional file,
see http://cpe.mitre.org/

There is no guaranty root modifies the cpe files but thats the same
for all systems which have cpe already implemented.

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Regards,
olli