Nessus 2.0.4 has been released. Its main feature is that it compiles under
RedHat 9, but it also fixes some minor issues I met when I conducted a huge
scan across a lot of hosts (about 400,000 actually) :
- fixed the SIGCHLD handler which would not work properly and leave zombies
on the system after each connection to nessusd ;
- fixed a race condition when testing a great number of hosts which would
cause a testing process to slow down a whole audit or even hang it
totally ;
- When a great number of host names is passed to nessusd as a target, they
are resolved by chunks of 64 instead of trying to resolve everything then
starting the test ;
- RedHat 9 support (in spite of their attempt to make their distro incompatible
with everyone else) ;
- nessus can save the reports to stdout and read them from stdin (thanks to
RedHat 9, but it also fixes some minor issues I met when I conducted a huge
scan across a lot of hosts (about 400,000 actually) :
- fixed the SIGCHLD handler which would not work properly and leave zombies
on the system after each connection to nessusd ;
- fixed a race condition when testing a great number of hosts which would
cause a testing process to slow down a whole audit or even hang it
totally ;
- When a great number of host names is passed to nessusd as a target, they
are resolved by chunks of 64 instead of trying to resolve everything then
starting the test ;
- RedHat 9 support (in spite of their attempt to make their distro incompatible
with everyone else) ;
- nessus can save the reports to stdout and read them from stdin (thanks to