Mailing List Archive: Single host (or hosts) scan seems to hang

Single host (or hosts) scan seems to hang

Sep 17, 2008, 6:59 AM

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Greetings,

I'm running a client Nessus 3 (v3.2.1.1) on an XP SP2 box and going
against a FreeBSD6 v3.2.0 version of Nessus and the scan starts but
never stops (this against a single host, ms security bulletins and lasts
> 1 hour).

Anyone have an idea of why this seems to hang up?

Nessusd.message excerpt:
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1542] connection from 10.0.0.15
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1558] Client requested protocol version 12.
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1558] successful login of nessusdood from
10.0.0.15
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1558] Redirecting debugging output to
/usr/local/nessus/var/nessus/logs/nessusd.dump
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1558] user nessusdood starts a new scan.
Target(s) : 10.0.0.53, with max_hosts = 20 and max_checks = 5
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1558] user nessusdood : testing 10.0.0.53
(10.0.0.53) [1561]
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1558] 0 TCP sessions in parallel
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1561] user nessusdood : launching
dont_scan_settings.nasl against 10.0.0.53 [1]
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1561] user nessusdood : launching
clrtxt_proto_settings.nasl against 10.0.0.53 [2]
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1561] user nessusdood : launching
ssh_settings.nasl against 10.0.0.53 [3]
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1561] dont_scan_settings.nasl (process 1)
finished its job in 0.000 seconds
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1561] clrtxt_proto_settings.nasl (process 2)
finished its job in 0.000 seconds
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1561] ssh_settings.nasl (process 3) finished
its job in 0.000 seconds
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1561] user nessusdood : launching
cifs445.nasl against 10.0.0.53 [4]
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1561] cifs445.nasl (process 4) finished its
job in 0.000 seconds
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1561] user nessusdood : launching logins.nasl
against 10.0.0.53 [5]
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1561] logins.nasl (process 5) finished its
job in 0.000 seconds
[Wed Sep 17 09:22:09 2008][1561] user nessusdood : launching
ping_host.nasl against 10.0.0.53 [6]
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Re: Single host (or hosts) scan seems to hang [ In reply to ]

rgula at tenablesecurity

Sep 18, 2008, 5:54 AM

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Joe Lawson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm running a client Nessus 3 (v3.2.1.1) on an XP SP2 box and going
> against a FreeBSD6 v3.2.0 version of Nessus and the scan starts but
> never stops (this against a single host, ms security bulletins and lasts
>> 1 hour).
>
> Anyone have an idea of why this seems to hang up?

Are you saying the scan lasts an hour, or that it never stops? I'm
not sure what your issue is. Are you concerned of the hour scan time
(this does seem high) or does the scan never actually finish?

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security

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RE: Single host (or hosts) scan seems to hang [ In reply to ]

jlawson at financeware

Sep 18, 2008, 6:15 AM

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Sorry, the scan never stops and does not progress past the last entry in
nessusd.messages: "launching ping_host.nasl against x.x.x.x"

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:55 AM
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Subject: Re: Single host (or hosts) scan seems to hang

Joe Lawson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm running a client Nessus 3 (v3.2.1.1) on an XP SP2 box and going
> against a FreeBSD6 v3.2.0 version of Nessus and the scan starts but
> never stops (this against a single host, ms security bulletins and
> lasts
>> 1 hour).
>
> Anyone have an idea of why this seems to hang up?

Are you saying the scan lasts an hour, or that it never stops? I'm not
sure what your issue is. Are you concerned of the hour scan time (this
does seem high) or does the scan never actually finish?

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security

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Re: Single host (or hosts) scan seems to hang [ In reply to ]

rgula at tenablesecurity

Sep 18, 2008, 7:43 AM

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Hi Joe,

Please try Nessus 3.2.1 for FreeBSD 7.0. FreeBSD 6 was not compatible
with with Nessus's process/thread management and we discontinued support
for it.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network security

Joe Lawson wrote:
> Sorry, the scan never stops and does not progress past the last entry in
> nessusd.messages: "launching ping_host.nasl against x.x.x.x"
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nessus-bounces@list.nessus.org
> [mailto:nessus-bounces@list.nessus.org] On Behalf Of Ron Gula
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:55 AM
> To: Nessus@list.nessus.org
> Subject: Re: Single host (or hosts) scan seems to hang
>
> Joe Lawson wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm running a client Nessus 3 (v3.2.1.1) on an XP SP2 box and going
>> against a FreeBSD6 v3.2.0 version of Nessus and the scan starts but
>> never stops (this against a single host, ms security bulletins and
>> lasts
>>> 1 hour).
>> Anyone have an idea of why this seems to hang up?
>
> Are you saying the scan lasts an hour, or that it never stops? I'm not
> sure what your issue is. Are you concerned of the hour scan time (this
> does seem high) or does the scan never actually finish?
>
> Ron Gula
> Tenable Network Security
>
>
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