Re: Nessus 3.0.3 / 2.2.8 released ; NessusClient 1.0.0.RC5 available

"sanjeev sinha" <[email protected]> Mon, 22 May 2006 15:38:28 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general,gmane.comp.security.nessus.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Are you connected to the internet?  "No traffic going anywhere" sounds=20
ominous.

Sanjeev

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy --- Jack Torrance, The Shining
----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Cintron, Jose J." <[email protected]>
To: "Renaud Deraison" <[email protected]>;=20
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 3:08 PM
Subject: RE: Nessus 3.0.3 / 2.2.8 released ; NessusClient 1.0.0.RC5=20
available


OK that's the theory.  Now in practice this is not happening.  I just
started the regsitration.exe and my trusty sniffer and there is no
traffic going from my machine anywhere.


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| Jos=E9 J. Cintr=F3n - <[email protected]>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Renaud Deraison
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 12:35
> To: [email protected] List; [email protected]
> Subject: Nessus 3.0.3 / 2.2.8 released ; NessusClient
> 1.0.0.RC5 available
>
>
>
> Tenable Network Security, Inc. is proud to announce the
> availability of the following products :
>
> - Nessus 3.0.3
> - Nessus 2.2.8
> - NessusClient 1.0.0.RC5
>
>
>
>
> Nessus 3.0.3
> ------------
>
> Nessus 3.0.3 has been released. This version is available on
> the Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X platforms, as well as on
> Solaris (sparc) and as a public beta on Microsoft Windows.
>
>
> This release contains the following fixes and improvements
> over 3.0.2 :
>
> - nessusd would stop in a middle of a scan if the log file is
> bigger than 2 gigabytes
> - nessusd would stop in a middle of a scan due to a hard to
> trigger one-byte memory overwrite issue
> - ping/packet forgery would fail when scanning a network over
> a NIC which was not enabled when nessusd initially started up
> - performance problems would arise when reading/writing KB
> files when scanning big networks
> - nasl -T - script.nasl now makes script debugging easier
> - Slightly faster initial plugins processing
> - More robust plugins database backend
> - On Mac OS X, users can be managed graphically thru the
> Nessus Server Manager program
> - Updated the plugins distributed with the archive
>
>
> We are thrilled to add Windows to our set of supported platforms.
> However, please keep in mind this version is a public beta.
> Therefore be careful when you use it and do not hesitate to
> send us your feedback at <[email protected]>
>
>
> Nessus 3.0.3 is available at : http://www.nessus.org/download/
>
>
>
>
> Nessus 2.2.8
> -------------
>
>
> Nessus 2.2.8 has also been released. It contains several fixes over
> 2.2.7 :
>
> - nessusd would stop in a middle of a scan due to a hard to
> trigger one-byte memory overwrite issue
> - plugins of type ACT_INIT and ACT_SETTINGS would not always
> be enabled during a scan
> - nasl would huge amounts of memory when executing a script
> mis-using the 'split()' function
>
>
> Nessus 2.2.8 is available at : http://www.nessus.org/download/
>
>
> NessusClient 1.0.0RC5
> ----------------------
>
>
> Finally, the release candidate 5 of NessusClient has been released.
> NessusClient, a GTK client for Nessus running on most Unix
> systems, is being co-developped by Intevation GmbH and
> Tenable Network Security, Inc.
>
> This new release contains the following changes over RC4 :
>
> - Added Swedish language support (provided by Daniel Nylander)
> - Renamed nessus-mkcert-client to nessusclient-mkcert
> - Fix for Bug #1414 : Plugin Prefs selection options get lost
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Renaud
>
> --
> Renaud Deraison
> http://www.tenablesecurity.com/
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