[harry@rh:~]$ telnet localhost 3306 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. ] 5.5.5-10.0.19-MariaDB the 5.5.5 srting leads in false positives for security scans and while i reported that to OpenVAS the correct soultion would be updating the 5.5.5 string to the latest 5.5x release instead "Fix" each scanner out there Medium (CVSS: 4.0) NVT: MariaDB 'COM_CHANGE_USER' Command Insecure Salt Generation Security Bypass Vuln... (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.804037) Solution Upgrade to MariaDB version 5.2.14, 5.3.12, 5.5.29 or later, For updates refer to https://mariadb.org Medium (CVSS: 5.0) NVT: MariaDB Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Windows) (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.804035) Solution Upgrade to MariaDB 5.1.68, 5.2.15, 5.3.13, 5.5.30 or later, For updates refer to https://mariadb.org Product detection result: cpe:/a:mariadb:mariadb:5.5.5- by MySQL/MariaDB Detection (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100152)