Re: old user rules are not cleared in nessusd

Thomas Arendsen Hein <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:39:31 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Thomas Arendsen Hein <[email protected]> [20041124 17:50]:
> Attached is a patch which makes a backup copy of the server rules
> while being connected by a client, before user rules are added.
> 
> If the client uses comm_send_rules to add new user rules, they are
> appended to all existing rules, so they get duplicated with every
> attack run. Even worse, they don't get cleared in the current
> connection if they are removed from the client.

It seems there is a problem with my patch which causes a segfault in
the server thread responsible for the connection sending rules.

I'll look into this, but maybe someone else has an idea?

Thomas

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