SoftRatty: Nessus 3.2.1 Released - New Report Filtering Features Added

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Nessus 3.2.1 Released - New Report Filtering Features Added

2008-05-31 02:35:02 by manunkind in PC Sympathy

Tenable Network Security has released version 3.2.1 of the Nessus vulnerability scanner. This point release includes a variety of small bug fixes as well as a new report filtering interface for the Nessus client. This blog entry will discuss the new Nessus features, bug fixes and reporting filters for the Nessus Client.

Nessus Release Notes

New features

New multi-criteria report filter in NessusClient. There is more on this later in the blog.
On Mac OS X, it is now possible to authenticate with NessusClient to a remote Nessus server via a SSL certificate
New NASL functions - bn_dec2raw(), bn_raw2dec(), bn_hex2raw(), bn_raw2hex(), rsa_public_encrypt(), rsa_private_encrypt() and rsa_private_decrypt()
New options in nessusd.conf : ‘enable_listen_ipv4′ and ‘enable_listen_ipv6′ let the user disable IPv4 and IPv6 bindings
Builds for Ubuntu Linux 8.04 and Fedora 9
Support for Windows 2000

Bug fixes in this release

‘nessus’ command-line client :

report entries longer than 16Kb would be truncated
When exporting a report to the .nessus format, some report entries could sometimes be truncated
When exporting a report to the .nessus format, backslashes would not be properly escaped

Nessus server :

Fixed a concurrency issue when too many threads write to the plugin database
On Solaris, SIGCHLD signals would not always be properly handled, thus leaving zombie processes
Fixed a segmentation fault in nasl occurring on 64 bits systems

Nessus client :

When searching for plugins, the filtering interface now works as expected

Plugins :

ssl_ciphers.nes has been removed in favor of the new ssl_ciphers.nasl
Fixed a segmentation fault in nessus_tcp_scanner.nes

Packaging :

The %uninstall section of the RPMs contained a bug which would force users doing an upgrade to call ‘chkconfig nessusd on’ manually. Due to the nature of this bug, be sure to call ‘chkconfig nessusd on’ when upgrading from 3.x.y to 3.2.1
The Debian 4 i386 build was incorrectly registering itself as x86-64, thus breaking ‘nessus-update’ on Debian 4 i386

Download here:
http://www.nessus.org/download/