Oval version 5.3 2nd Canditate available

Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVALâ„¢) is an international, information security, community standard to promote open and publicly available security content, and to standardize the transfer of this information across the entire spectrum of security tools and services. OVAL includes a language used to encode system details, and an assortment of content repositories held throughout the community.

Version 5.3 of the Official OVAL Language is a direct result of feedback from the OVAL Community. This will be a minor version change and may require some new development by tools that support earlier versions of the Language. The changes pending to the different schemas are outlined below.

Version 5.3 of the OVAL Schema will include the following:

  • updated documentation
  • added sql test to the independent schema
  • changed the datatype of the comment attribute to not accept empty strings
  • added include_group and resolve_group behaviors to the windows accesstoken_object
  • modified the schematron of the rpminfo_state to allow ’version’ as a valid datatype for the and entities
  • added new privileges to the windows accesstoken_test
  • added an optional mask attribute fixed a schema error that had a_time, c_time, and m_time defined as strings, changed to ints
  • added the audit event policy subcategories test to the windows schema
  • added a schematron rule in certain places to validate that an int value was supplied when a datatype of int was declared
  • added a share permission test to the windows schema
  • added a printer effective rights test
  • changed the trustee_name entity to trustee_sid for existing effective rights and audit permission tests, deprecated the original tests
  • added a check_existence attribute to and OVAL Test
  • added the ’none satisfy’ value to the existing check attribute of an OVAL Test
  • added a ONE operator to the criterion element
  • added a user access control test
  • modified the hp-ux patch test

Post scriptum

Compliance Mandates

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    PCI DSS 11.2, 6.6, SOX A13.3, GLBA 16CFR Part 314.4(c), HIPAA 164.308(a)(8), FISMA RA-5, SI-2, ISO 27001-27002 12.6, 15.2.2


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