A vulnerability scanner detected an obsolete version of an open-source file-sharing application on one of a company’s Linux servers. While the software version is no longer supported by the OSS community, the company’s Linux vendor backported fixes, applied them for all current vulnerabilities, and agrees to support the software in the future.

A vulnerability scanner detected an obsolete version of an open-source file-sharing application on one of a company’s Linux servers. While the software version is no longer supported by the OSS community, the company’s Linux vendor backported fixes, applied them for all current vulnerabilities, and agrees to support the software in the future.

Based on this agreement, this finding is BEST categorized as a:
A . true positive.
B. true negative.
C. false positive.
D. false negative.

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Answer: C