De ontwikkelaars van Nessus hebben ons weer mogen verblijden met een nieuwe versie, welke 2.0.1 is gedoopt. De volgende release notes zijn aanwezig.
The "Nessus" Project aims to provide to the internet community a free, powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote security scanner. A security scanner is a software which will audit remotely a given network and determine whether bad guys (aka 'crackers') may break into it, or misuse it in some way. Nessus is very fast, reliable and has a modular architecture that allows you to fit it to your needs.
What is new in Nessus 2.0.1, compared to 2.0.0 :What is new in Nessus 2.0, compared to 1.2 :
- changes by Renaud Deraison (deraison at cvs.nessus.org)
- Minor bugfixes (bugs #180, #183, #185, #188, #189, #195, #197, #202, #203, #20 4)
- Fixed the "pink" graphical report issue
- Added http keep-alive support in the CGI related plugins
- Fixed a bug in the function get_kb_list() which would not always work properly
- Fixed an issue where in some situations, some HTTP services would not be tested for flaws if they have not been port-scanned first
- Added new signatures in find_services.nes
- changes by Stephen Friedl (steve at unixwiz.net)
- Fixed bugs and warnings in nessus-libraries
- Huge speed gains :
- libnasl has been rewritten from scratch
- extended the NASL language
- Smarter plugin scheduler, for better parallelism
- Enhanced service detection
- Greatly reduced memory usage
- Support for multiple CVE and BID in the plugins
- New port scanner designed to be fast against firewalled hosts