On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:05:21PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> I've put up a new Red Hat Linux 8.0 build of nessus here :
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/testing/nessus/
>
> It's 100% untested, although the build should be ok. The new menu was
> added, but some configuration files may be better with new or different
> defaults.
>
> Feedback is very welcome!
It works very nice, would you consider upgrading it to 1.2.6 released only a
few hours after your build?
Thanks!
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:49:11PM +0200, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> Special thanks go to Michael Slifcak, whose work on Nessus during the
> last months have been truly appreciated even if they have not always
> been as underlined as they should have been. Michael, thanks again !
>
>
> AVAILABILITY:
>
> Nessus 1.2.6 is available at http://www.nessus.org/posix.html
--
Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de
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