Nessus 3.0.6 and 2.2.10 released

Renaud Deraison <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:43:05 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general,gmane.comp.security.nessus.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Tenable Network Security, Inc. is proud to announce the availability  
of Nessus 3.0.6 for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.


* Nessus 3.0.6 contains the following fixes :

- Fixed a cross site scripting vulnerability in the Windows GUI
- Fixed a possible segfault condition occuring when multiple clients  
simultaneously log into the nessusd server
- Fixed a memory leak in nasl scripts containing a function on_exit()
- Improved performance when logging into nessusd
- The scan does not fail any more if the main nessusd process runs  
out of file descriptors (this would occur on Solaris with max_host  
set to a value higher than 200)
- Several fixes in the NASL interpreter
- Builds for Fedora Core 7 and Red Hat ES 5


* Also, Nessus 2.2.10 has been released as well. It contains the  
following fixes :

- The KBs files of the named hosts also contain their IP addresses  
(patch by Hubert Seiwert and Richard Moore, westpoint.ltd.uk)
- Fixed a crash when copying an array of array containing NULL items
- Fixed bug#1606 in libpcap-nessus
- Fixed a crash occuring on x86-64 (bug#1546)


Nessus 3.0.6 and 2.2.10 can be obtained at http://www.nessus.org/ 
download/



Thanks,

				-- Renaud
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