Fix NVD version comparator to remove undesired suffixes #5362
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Description
This PR modifies the way that the version part is compared between the installed packages and the NVD packages for Linux. Since the NVD contains a generic version in most of the cases, the version of the installed package should be truncated in the following cases:
.
followed by a non-numeric character+
followed by a non-numeric character~
followed by a non-numeric characterFinally, the following cases have been ignored for this change:
.0
at the end of the version: In this case, the comparator itself has to compare the versions properly.openssl 1.1.0h
): In these cases, the version found in the NVD generally contains those characters.Logs/Alerts example
Here an example of the comparison affected by this change:
Tests