Nessus 3.0.4 Available
Tenable Network Security is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nessus 3.0.4 which includes changes to the nessusd daemon, specific changes for Nessus 3 running on Windows, specific changes for Nessus 3 running on OS X and changes to the Nessus command line client.
Tenable has also released Nessus 2.2.9 and Nessus Client 1.0.0.
These releases can be obtained by visiting http://www.nessus.org/download/ for downloading.
This new release contains the following enhancements and fixes :
Nessus 3.0.4 daemon
- Processing the plugins after an update is faster
- Better detection and handling of corrupt db files
- It is now possible to use 'default' in a port range just like any other port (ie: '1,default,443,8080')
- Avoid a deadlock in the main process when waiting for a sub process to die
- nessus_tcp_scanner works much better when used over a slow network link
- nessus_tcp_scanner now offers some options accessible thru the GUI
- If 'log_whole_attack' is set to 'no' , do not print messages about shared sockets in the logs
- Fixed the 'on_exit()' nasl function
- Fixed 'nasl -k' which would sometimes not work properly
- Avoid doing some un-necessary system calls, thus resulting in a lower load during a scan (esp. on Mac OS X)
- Fixed a bug in ssh_func.inc which would prevent it from working against HP/UX
- Binaries for Fedora Core 6
Nessus 3.0.4 Command line client
- Logs much faster into a remote nessusd scanner
- Fixed a possible memory corruption issue when creating a list of plugins to launch
- Fixed a corruption of the .nessusrc files when receiving some plugin prefs ending by a space
Nessus 3.0.4 Mac OS X specific changes
- Opening and closing a session window would stop all on-going scans
- Creating a policy and defining it as 'shared' immediately saves the policies on disk
Nessus 3.0.4 Windows specific changes
- Not a beta any more
- Fixed file lock issues
Nessus 2.2.9 Daemon
- Fixed a bug in the PCAP handler which in turn fixes synscan.nes (thanks to Marcel <mkalracuesl (at) gmail.com>)
- Fixed a banner encoding problem in nessus_tcp_scanner and find_service
- Fixed a possible deadlock in synscan.nes
- Avoid a deadlock in the main process when waiting for a sub process to die
- nessus_tcp_scanner works much better when used over a slow network link
- nessus_tcp_scanner now offers some options accessible thru the GUI
- Fixed a bug in ssh_func.inc which would prevent it from working against HP/UX
Nessus 2.2.9 Client
- Fixed a possible memory corruption issue when creating a list of plugins to launch
- Fixed a corruption of the .nessusrc files when receiving some plugin prefs ending by a space
NessusClient 1.0.0 released
- Much faster to load
- Fixed various minor bug fixes
- Binaries for Fedora Core 6
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