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
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