Re: 3.2.1 Included Functions

Nicolas Pouvesle <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sep 10, 2008, at 6:35 PM, Tucker, Brock - St. Louis, MO wrote:

> I was working on a way to gather information from all the plugins for
> internal purposes using the nasl command, when I came across issues  
> with
> unknown functions.
>
> bn_raw2dec
> rsa_public_encrypt
> rsa_private_decrypt
>
> I looked through the mailing list and noticed that those functions  
> were
> included in 3.2.1. We are currently running Nessus 3.2.0 for Linux and
> upgrading takes some time, and will eventually happen. My question is
> this, are the plugins that call these functions now broke until we
> upgrade to 3.2.1?


Yes and no. Those functions are only used by the ssh1 implementation.  
So until you upgrade to 3.2.1 you will not be able to do local checks/ 
audit through SSH1, which is no recommended anyway.


Nicolas
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