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Tenable Announces the Release of Nessus 3.0.4

October 30, 2006 · Columbia, MD

Tenable Network Security, Inc. is proud to announce the availability of Nessus 3.0.4 for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. This release contains the following fixes and enhancements:

Nessus daemon ('nessusd'):

  • Processing the plugins after an update is faster
  • Better detection and handling of corrupt db files
  • It is now possible to use 'default' in a port range just like any other port (ie: '1,default,443,8080')
  • Avoid a deadlock in the main process when waiting for a sub process to die
  • nessus_tcp_scanner works much better when used over a slow network link
  • nessus_tcp_scanner now offers some options accessible thru the GUI
  • If 'log_whole_attack' is set to 'no' , do not print messages about shared sockets in the logs
  • Fixed the 'on_exit()' nasl function
  • Fixed 'nasl -k' which would sometimes not work properly
  • Avoid doing some un-necessary system calls, thus resulting in a lower load during a scan (esp. on Mac OS X)
  • Fixed a bug in ssh_func.inc which would prevent it from working against HP/UX

Command line client ('nessus'):

  • Logs much faster in a remote nessusd scanner
  • Fixed a possible memory corruption issue when creating a list of plugins to launch
  • Fixed a corruption of the .nessusrc files when receiving some plugin prefs ending by a space

Mac OS X specific changes:

  • Opening and closing a session window would stop all on-going scans
  • Creating a policy and defining it as 'shared' immediately saves the policies on disk

Windows-specific changes:

  • Not a beta anymore
  • Fixed file lock issues

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