Nessus 2.2.6 released

I'm happy to announce the availability of Nessus 2.2.6.

Nessus 2.2.6 is a maintenance release which fixes several minor bugs,  
adds a new function to the NASL language and contains an improved  
version of the Nessus TCP scanner. We recommend to every Nessus 2.2  
user to upgrade to this version.


Here is a quick summary of the changes and improvements in this  
release :



+ Changes affecting the Nessus engine :

- Fixed a problem which would prevent nessusd from starting up  
properly when the system clock is not configured properly ;

- Under certain circumstances, the plugins preferences may appear  
twice in the Nessus GUI ;

- nessus-fetch is more reliable when used in a very low bandwidth  
environment ;

- nessusd has higher memory limits when running on a 64 bits CPU ;

- New NASL function socket_get_error() which returns the last error  
which occured on a socket (timeout, connection reset, etc...) ;

- Removed the C function http_recv_headers() in favor of  
http_recv_headers2() written in NASL ;


+ Changes affecting the Nessus plugins :

- The Windows Bulletin checks now check the version of the files on  
the remote host (when possible) instead of looking at the registry ;

- It is now possible to disable CGI scanning entirely in the "Global  
Settings" preference panel ;

- Rewritten several key plugins (dcetest.nasl, netbios_name_get.nasl)  
to better support the underlying protocol ;

- nessus_tcp_scanner now performs multiple passes, for improved  
reliability. It also is much quicker against BSD machines (which have  
a rate limitation for the RST they send) ;



Nessus 2.2.6 can be downloaded at <http://www.nessus.org/download/>



				-- Renaud
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