From rpm-list-admin@freshrpms.net Wed Oct 9 10:49:52 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: zzzz@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by example.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E703F16F6C for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:48:03 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for zzzz@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:48:03 +0100 (IST) Received: from egwn.net (ns2.egwn.net [193.172.5.4]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g98MF6K04249 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:15:06 +0100 Received: from auth02.nl.egwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by egwn.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/EGWN) with ESMTP id g98M5Df17411; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:05:13 +0200 Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com (mailout11.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.85]) by egwn.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/EGWN) with ESMTP id g98M46f16709 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:04:06 +0200 Received: from fwd08.sul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17z2ST-0003jb-03; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 00:04:05 +0200 Received: from puariko.homeip.net (520039812576-0001@[217.231.233.201]) by fmrl08.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17z2SO-0ymuK8C; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:04:00 +0200 Received: (from thimm@localhost) by bonzo.nirvana (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g98M3scx019124; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:03:54 +0200 From: Axel Thimm To: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net Subject: Re: Nessus? Message-Id: <20021008220353.GA17382@bonzo.nirvana> References: <20021008114911.GB37924@nessus.org> <1034013325.8419.88.camel@bobcat.ods.org> <20021007200642.27614e1b.matthias@rpmforge.net> <20021007230521.0f1727aa.matthias@rpmforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021008114911.GB37924@nessus.org> <20021007230521.0f1727aa.matthias@rpmforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Sender: 520039812576-0001@t-dialin.net X-Mailscanner: Found to be clean, Found to be clean Sender: rpm-zzzlist-admin@freshrpms.net Errors-To: rpm-zzzlist-admin@freshrpms.net X-Beenthere: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Freshrpms RPM discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Original-Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:03:53 +0200 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:03:53 +0200 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-12.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, SIGNATURE_SHORT_SPARSE,T_NONSENSE_FROM_30_40,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: 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 _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list