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Re: plugin 22194 - potential false positive?

Subject: Re: plugin 22194 - potential false positive?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:01:26 -0400
how2 vuln wrote:
Just re-read your message and it looks like previous version caused false
negative, NOT false positive? 

yes.

In my environment a false positive is more
serious than a false negative. Nonetheless, what may have caused the false
negatives in version prior to 1.4?

a buffer was not properly initialized.


Nicolas
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