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@seth-arnold,
You are talking about a different type of vulnerability scanning that is not part of the Qualys service in question (External vulnerability scan, "black box" scan methodology). PCI DSS also mandates regular internal scans and penetration tests. Qualys, as well as other vendors provides such services.
As for determining package version directly vs. by version banner, I don't see any difference *in this case* as by default full ubuntu-specific package version is displayed in SSH version banner and Qualys requires users not to interfere with the scanning.
The issue that @root(mysky) has stems from the fact that Qualys is usually very fast when including a vulnerable product in their detector but sometimes slow to exclude fixed versions as in this case. This isn't a big deal as they have False Positive Report mechanism that allows a live service representative to asses the situation and allow your system to pass even if the automatic scanner detects a non-existent vulnerability.