Nessus false positives and errors

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Here are the list of Nessus scan results that are marked as False Positives, Operational Need, Acceptable Risk, etc.:

 

 

Nessus findings on STAR DB servers with False Positive marks sampled on March 11, 2008
NODERISKPORTISSUECOMMENT
db01.star.bnl.govHIGH22SSH versionUpdated Redhat packages have been installed that address this vulnerability without updating the version number. (wbetts)
db02.star.bnl.govHIGH3316anonymous DB access w/o passwordThere is no sensitive information in these databases, and the anonymous account has read-only privileges. (wbetts)
db06.star.bnl.govHIGH3316anonymous DB access w/o passwordroot has a password associated with both local host and network accessible accounts. The anonymous account access is acceptable. (wbetts)
db06.star.bnl.govHIGH22SSH versionThis system has the latest RedHat openssh packages for Enterprise Linux 3, which include backported patches for these issues. (wbetts)
db07.star.bnl.govHIGH3316anonymous DB access w/o passwordThe database administrator asserts that there is no operational risk. "root" is not a privileged account. The "root" user (or any other user) has very limited access (and no write access) when conn (wbetts)
db07.star.bnl.govHIGH22SSH versionRHEL 3 WS with latest RH ssh packages (wbetts)
onldb01.starp.bnl.govHIGH3502anonymous DB access w/o passwordRoot has a password associated with it: mysql -S /tmp/mysql.3503.sock -u root ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) Anonymous user only have acce (dephilli)
onldb01.starp.bnl.govHIGH3501anonymous DB access w/o passwordRoot has a password associated with it: mysql -S /tmp/mysql.3503.sock -u root ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) Anonymous user only have acce (dephilli)
onldb01.starp.bnl.govHIGH3406anonymous DB access w/o passwordroot has a password / only non priveleged read only accounts from specific locations remain unpassworded (dephilli)
onldb01.starp.bnl.govHIGH3407anonymous DB access w/o passwordThere is no sensitive information in these databases, and the anonymous account has read-only privileges. The "root" account has a password associated with it.
onldb01.starp.bnl.govHIGH3503root DB access w/o passwordRoot has a password associated with it: mysql -S /tmp/mysql.3503.sock -u root ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) Anonymous user only have acce (dephilli)
     

 

The passwordless accounts ("root" and "anonymous") are only distinguished in the details of each finding -- our comments sometimes address root when anoymous is found or vice versa.

Other db nodes have no marked findings at this time:  robinson, heston, db03, db04, db05, db08, db09, db10, db11, onldb01, onldb2, onldb03, coburn, colbert, pegasus, lx1, bogart, brando.  Many of these have no scan results at all, which bears investigation.