I'm happy to announce the availability of Nessus 2.2.6.
Nessus 2.2.6 is a maintenance release which fixes several minor bugs,
adds a new function to the NASL language and contains an improved
version of the Nessus TCP scanner. We recommend to every Nessus 2.2
user to upgrade to this version.
Here is a quick summary of the changes and improvements in this
release :
+ Changes affecting the Nessus engine :
- Fixed a problem which would prevent nessusd from starting up
properly when the system clock is not configured properly ;
- Under certain circumstances, the plugins preferences may appear
twice in the Nessus GUI ;
- nessus-fetch is more reliable when used in a very low bandwidth
environment ;
- nessusd has higher memory limits when running on a 64 bits CPU ;
- New NASL function socket_get_error() which returns the last error
which occured on a socket (timeout, connection reset, etc...) ;
- Removed the C function http_recv_headers() in favor of
http_recv_headers2() written in NASL ;
+ Changes affecting the Nessus plugins :
- The Windows Bulletin checks now check the version of the files on
the remote host (when possible) instead of looking at the registry ;
- It is now possible to disable CGI scanning entirely in the "Global
Settings" preference panel ;
- Rewritten several key plugins (dcetest.nasl, netbios_name_get.nasl)
to better support the underlying protocol ;
- nessus_tcp_scanner now performs multiple passes, for improved
reliability. It also is much quicker against BSD machines (which have
a rate limitation for the RST they send) ;
Nessus 2.2.6 can be downloaded at <http://www.nessus.org/download/>
-- Renaud
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Nessus 2.2.6 is a maintenance release which fixes several minor bugs,
adds a new function to the NASL language and contains an improved
version of the Nessus TCP scanner. We recommend to every Nessus 2.2
user to upgrade to this version.
Here is a quick summary of the changes and improvements in this
release :
+ Changes affecting the Nessus engine :
- Fixed a problem which would prevent nessusd from starting up
properly when the system clock is not configured properly ;
- Under certain circumstances, the plugins preferences may appear
twice in the Nessus GUI ;
- nessus-fetch is more reliable when used in a very low bandwidth
environment ;
- nessusd has higher memory limits when running on a 64 bits CPU ;
- New NASL function socket_get_error() which returns the last error
which occured on a socket (timeout, connection reset, etc...) ;
- Removed the C function http_recv_headers() in favor of
http_recv_headers2() written in NASL ;
+ Changes affecting the Nessus plugins :
- The Windows Bulletin checks now check the version of the files on
the remote host (when possible) instead of looking at the registry ;
- It is now possible to disable CGI scanning entirely in the "Global
Settings" preference panel ;
- Rewritten several key plugins (dcetest.nasl, netbios_name_get.nasl)
to better support the underlying protocol ;
- nessus_tcp_scanner now performs multiple passes, for improved
reliability. It also is much quicker against BSD machines (which have
a rate limitation for the RST they send) ;
Nessus 2.2.6 can be downloaded at <http://www.nessus.org/download/>
-- Renaud
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