Nessus 5.2.2 Is Now Available
Nessus 5.2.2 is now available for download. Version 5.2.2 provides the following improvements:
- Improved the packet capture driver on Windows 7 and newer
- Nessus now has the ability to export reports as full DBs that can be moved from one scanner to another
- New, faster web mirror plugin
This release also addresses the following bugs:
- RC4 ciphers present in the the Nessus web server
- Unable to save policy description in Flash
- Nessus sometimes enters a crash loop while trying to initialize the plugins
- Nessus registration screen does not support ampersand characters for passwords
- Some scans requested to stop get stuck in the "Stopping" state
- Parse error when importing scan results
- NASL: Long single-quoted strings have the wrong length
- NASL: query_report could lock the scan/report on error
- NASL: Using #TRUSTED causes the next line of script to be ignored
- NASL: Passing an empty string to str_replace() causes an out of bound read
To download Nessus 5.2.2, please visit the Tenable Support Portal or the Nessus download page.
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