I'm pleased to announce the availability of Nessus 1.2.6, which should
be one of the last versions of Nessus 1.2.x (hopefully), as I will soon
open a new unstable tree and start to break things again :)
What is new in Nessus 1.2.6, in comparison to 1.2.5 :
* changes by Michael Slifcak (Michael.Slifcak at guardent.com)
+ Added Bugtraq cross reference in the plugins
+ Added support for BID in nessusd (this has yet to be done on
the client side)
* changes by Axel Nennker (Axel.Nennker at t-systems.com)
+ fixed the xml and html outputs
+ fixed array issues in a couple of plugins
* changes by Michel Arboi (arboi at bigfoot.com)
+ find_service now detects services protected by TCP wrappers
or ACL
+ find_service detects gnuserv
+ ptyexecvp() replaced by nessus_popen() (*)
* changes by Renaud Deraison (deraison at cvs.nessus.org)
+ Fixed a bug which may make nasl interpret backquoted strings
(\n and \r) received from the network (problem noted by Pavel
Kankovsky)
+ nmap_wrapper.nes calls _exit() instead of exit() (*)
+ Solved the lack of bpf's on Free/Open/NetBSD and MacOSX by
sharing _one_ among all the Nessus processes. As a result,
Nessus's ping is much more effective on these platforms
+ bugfix in plug_set_key() which would eventually make some
scripts take too long when writing in the KB
+ Plugins of family ACT_SETTINGS are run *after* plugins of
family ACT_SCANNERS
+ replaced the implementation of md5 which was used when
OpenSSL is disabled by the one from RSA (the old one would
not work on a big-endian host)
+ Fixed plugins build issues on MacOS X
+ The nessus client compiles and links against GTK+-2.0. Of
course, it will be horrible and unstable, as the GTK team
does not care about backward compatibility
(*) These two modifications solve the problems of nmap hanging under FreeBSD
Special thanks go to Michael Slifcak, whose work on Nessus during the
last months have been truly appreciated even if they have not always
been as underlined as they should have been. Michael, thanks again !
AVAILABILITY:
Nessus 1.2.6 is available at http://www.nessus.org/posix.html
-- Renaud
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Renaud Deraison
The Nessus Project
http://www.nessus.org
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