OpenVAS Scanner v6.0+beta2
Pre-release
Pre-release
This is the second beta release of the openvas-scanner module 6.0 for the
Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) framework.
The module covers a number of significant advances and clean-ups.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Hani Benhabiles, Christian Fischer, Matt Mundell, Juan Jose Nicola,
Bjoern Ricks, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand.
Main changes compared to openvas-scanner 6.0+beta1:
- A new command line option 'scan-start' with a scan ID has been added. This
add support for non-OTP clients. - Handling of vhosts and multiple domain names has been improved.
- Setting 'kb_location' has been renamed to 'db_address'.
- Cleanup of plugin child processes has been improved.
- Routines for tcp and udp required ports checks have been improved.
- An issue caused by password quotation has been addressed.
- Script version has been removed.
- Script copyright has been removed.
- An issue which caused a hanging scan process has been addressed.
- An issue related to WMI_HANDLE which caused a segmentation fault has
been addressed. - NASL get_host_names() API has been added.
- Several code style improvements have been done.
- Several performance improvements have been done.
- The plugin scheduler has been improved.
- Define MAXPATHLEN for specific downstream architectures.
- An issue which caused parameter pollution in certain NASL functions
has been addressed. - NASL function resolve_host_name() has been added.
- Unused preference use_mac_addr has been removed.
- Issues in building process have been addressed.
- Defaults to expand_vhosts if no preference was given is set to
yes
. - NASL function get_ssl_compression() has been removed.
- Compatibility mode in GnuTLS priority string has been enabled.
- GnuTLS RC4 + COMPAT in set_gnutls_protocol() have been enabled.
- Several issues reported by Coverity have been addressed.
- Documentation has been improved.