On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 10:57:42AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> After debugging this issue in a system that Marc Haber set up for testing
> I've found two different issues, one is a misconfiguration, the other is a
> problem with the nessus package (the client)

> - (fixing the above) the nessus client was not able to connect to the server
>   error . Error message:
>   [ client ] 
>   [8305] SSL_connect: error:140943FC:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert
>   bad record mac
>   nessus : SSL error
>   [ none at server ]

> I downgraded the nessus client version to 2.2.5-2 (which is *not* compiled
> against both 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 SSL libraries) and it worked fine.

> The issue should be fixed by recompiling the client against a set of the
> libraries, and should affect only the 2.2.5-3 version under i386. Notice,
> also that the package has an undeclared dependency on libssl0.9.7 (the binary
> is linked against that one).

Why do you say that?

$ dpkg -x n/nessus-core/nessus_2.2.5-3_i386.deb /tmp/nessus
$ ldd /tmp/nessus/usr/bin/nessus |grep ssl
        libssl.so.0.9.8 => not found
$

I don't see any reason to think that 2.2.5-3 is linked against 0.9.7.

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