Date:         Sun, 6 Aug 2000 04:13:09 -0500
From: InfoSec News <isn@C4I.ORG>
Subject:      [ISN] ICAT Searchable Vulnerability Index
To: ISN@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

Forwarded By: Peter Mell <peter.mell@nist.gov>

The U.S. government has created a searchable index of computer
vulnerabilities called ICAT that is publicly available at
http://csrc.nist.gov/icat. ICAT links users into a variety of publicly
available vulnerability databases and patch sites, thus enabling one
to find and fix the vulnerabilities existing on their systems. ICAT is
not itself a vulnerability database, but is instead a searchable index
leading one to vulnerability resources and patch information. ICAT
allows one to search at a fine granularity, a feature unavailable with
most vulnerability databases, by characterizing each vulnerability by
over 40 attributes (including software name and version number). ICAT
indexes the information available in CERT advisories, Security Focus,
ISS X-Force, NT Bugtraq, Bugtraq, and a variety of vendor security and
patch bulletins. ICAT does not compete with publicly available
vulnerability databases but instead is a search engine that drives
traffic to them. ICAT is maintained by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology and is based on the CVE vulnerability naming
standard (http://cve.mitre.org).

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