I have this some though a couple of years ago. Some of the attributes didn't
seem to map cleanly. I think the conversion would be possible once the field map
was figured out.
The date time and version representations in particular would need massaging.
Also I recall OVAL has some variations like remediation that go beyond what
vuln.xml contains.
> On Sep 24, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Roger Marquis <marquis at roble.com>
wrote:
>
> Anyone familiar with the OS repositories for OVAL
> <http://oval.mitre.org/repository/>? Considering how similar these
dbs are to
> vuln.xml it seems odd that FreeBSD is not represented as a "supported
> operating system".
>
> If any XML devs are reading this, how difficult would it be to write a
> translation script?
>
> Roger Marquis
>
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