All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog.
21.10 (unreleased)
- Add support for volatile keys. #682
- Extend nasl lint to check Syntax for Arguments for script_xref() function. #714
- Recheck alive status of host with specified amount of NVT timeouts. #729
- Integrate sentry for debugging purposes #742
- Add support for non-interactive shell to nasl_ssh_shell_open(). #744 #757
- Add message type validation for proto_post_wrapped. #805
- Add nasl function sftp_enabled_check() to check if sftp subsystem is enabled in the target.
- Add
find_all
to eregmatch() nasl function. Backport PR #875. #876 - Add nasl functions for checking ssl/tls secure renegotiation and performing re-handshake. #889
- Fix Segmentation fault when freeing hosts and alive hosts #888
- function script_bugtraq_id getting skipped, linter warns. #724
- Refactor dead host status sending. #807
- Refactor openvas.c. #810 #811
- Handle script timeout as script preference with ID 0 #844
- Use fchmod to change file permission instead of on open to prevent race conditions 854
- Several minor potential security risks in different files, spotted by Code QL 854
- Fix plugins upload. Backport #878 #880
- Fix Error Message when NVTI chache init failed. Backport #885 #887
- Fix Segmentation fault when freeing hosts and alive hosts #888
- Remove handling of source_iface related preferences. #730
21.4.3 (unreleased)
- Add nasl function sftp_enabled_check() to check if sftp subsystem is enabled in the target.
- Changed defaults for installation locations #826
- SYSCONFDIR is /etc by default now
- LOCALSTATEDIR is /var by default now
- OPENVAS_RUN_DIR is /run/ospd by default now
- OPENVAS_FEED_LOCK_PATH is /var/lib/openvas/feed-update.lock by default now
- Fix interrupted scan, when the process table is full. #832
- Use fchmod to change file permission instead of on open to prevent race conditions 854
- Fix plugins upload #878
- Fix Error Message when NVTI chache init failed #885
- Fix potential segfault.#884
21.4.2 - 2021-08-03
21.4.1 - 2021-06-23
- Improve nasl linter to catch more cases of undeclared variables. #728
- Add deprecation warning for source_iface related settings which will be removed with the 21.10 release. #732
- New Credentials for SSH to get su privileges. Backport of #744. #753
- Update default log config #711
- Use host from the original hosts list when boreas is enabled. #725
- Initialize the the kb to store results for openvas-nasl #735
- Fix unittest. Mock kb_lnk_reset. #748
21.4.0 - 2021-04-15
- Add scanner-only option to enable tls debugging. #558
- Extend nasl lint to detect if function parameter is used twice. #585
- Add option to specify if a host can be scanned through its IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel. #604 #645
- Add insert_tcp_options and insert_tcp_v6_options nasl functions. #618
- Add get_tcp_option and extend dump_tcp_packet nasl functions. #621
- Add new scanner only option for spawning NASL functions with a different owner. #634
- Add debug logs for allow_simultaneous_ips=no. #685
- Add min_free_mem and max_sysload scanner only options. #690
- Store results in main_kb instead of host_kb. #550
- Also use internal function name in some nasl log messages. #611
- Move more scanner preferences to gvm-libs to make them available for openvas-nasl. #614
- Use the nvticache name from gvm-libs, defined in nvticache.h. #578
20.8.4 (unreleased)
- Changed defaults for installation locations #826
- SYSCONFDIR is /etc by default now
- LOCALSTATEDIR is /var by default now
- OPENVAS_RUN_DIR is /run/ospd by default now
- OPENVAS_FEED_LOCK_PATH is /var/lib/openvas/feed-update.lock by default now
20.8.3 - 2021-08-03
20.8.2 - 2021-06-23
- Check for wrong names or values in the script_xrefs params. #650 #653
- Log a message if the scanner did not launch all plugins against a host. #700 #734
- Replace bogus data with a better message and the vendor. #665
- Improve log message for WMI connect failed or missing WMI support. #670
- Don't use g_error. Use g_warning instead and let the scanner to continue. #710
- Update COPYING file. #750
- Set file permissions when syncing community feed #769
- Fix issues discovered with clang compiler. #654
- Fix gcc-9 and gcc-10 warnings. #655
- Fix double free in nasl_cert_query. #658
- Fix message to the client if there is a iface problem. #695
- Fix SIGSEGV when no best route is found. #702
- Fix host count when reverse_lookup_only is enabled. #715
- Use host from the original hosts list when boreas is enabled. Backport of PR #727. #725
- The function description of nasl_ssh_shell_read() has been fixed. #755
- Remove code from the openvas daemon era. Do not flushall redis. #689
- Remove deprecated option logfile. #713
20.8.1 - 2021-02-01
- Extend nasl lint to detect if function parameter is used twice. #590
- Add support for TLSv1.3. #588#598
- Add alternative for supporting snmp during scans. #594
- Add resolve_hostname_to_multiple_ips() NASL function. #596
- Add dump_icmp_packet() and dump_icmp_v6_packet() nasl functions. #609
- Send message to the client with hosts count. #606
- Use nasl_perror on invalid input and add more documentation. #608
- Add timeout argument to ssh_connect() nasl function to set the connection timeout. 631
- Downgrade wmi queries log level for common errors. #602 #607
- Rename some nasl functions and func parameters for consistency and fix byte order issue in get_ipv6_element. #613
- Change log level from debug to message to show max_host and max_scan during scan start. #626
- Changed the redis-openvas.conf, so that it is compliant with the 5.0+ version(s) of redis. #668
- Fork vhosts before creating the socket.#576
- Check if another forked child has already added the same vhost. #581
- Send duplicated hosts as dead hosts to ospd, to adjust scan progress calculation. #586
- Only send the signal if the pid is a positive value. #593
- When routes with same mask are found the route with the better metric is chosen. #593 #639
- Fix malformed target. #625
- Fix snmp result. Only return the value and do not stop at the first \n. #627
- Fix masking of IPv6 addresses. #635
- Fix technique switch for getting the appropriate interface to use for IPv6 dst addr. #636
- Fix host count. Set to -1 when the target string is invalid. #646
- Create greenbone-nvt-sync create lock file during feed sync. #458 #459
- Extend script_get_preference() to get the value by id. #470
- Add extended environmental variables info to greenbone-nvt-sync help text. #488
- Extend nasl functions which generate results with optional "uri" parameter #526
- Add nasl function to get the host kb index. #530
- Print the filter used by pcap in the error message. #537 #540
- The logging of the NASL internal regexp functions was extended to include the pattern in case of a failed regcomp(). #397
- Add config for gpg keyring path (OPENVAS_GPG_BASE_DIR) #407
- Use func instead of FUNCTION #419
- Use pcap_findalldevs() instead of deprecated function pcap_lookupdev() #422 #430
- Add port-range option for openvas-nasl #431
- Add test_alive_hosts_only feature. #456
- Don't reload the plugins when start a new scan. #458
- Drop http feed sync. #478
- Add aligned summary to log at scan end. #496
- Unify log messages about start/end of scan and of hosts. #500
- Use flock to lock the feed lock file. #507
- Move alive detection module (Boreas) into gvm-libs #519
- Allow to set all legal types of icmp v6 in icmp header in openvas-nasl. #542
- The output of the NASL dump_* packet forgery functions was made consistent. #555
- Make drop_privileges setting a scanner-only preference. #557
- Feed lock path is now configurable. #574
- Improve signal handling when update vhosts list. #425
- Wait for all children instead of waiting just for one a time. #428
- Don't detect MongoDB as a HTTP service. #447
- Set status finished and send a message if the port list is invalid. #453
- Fix format-truncation warning in GCC 8.2 and later. #461
- Clean the new kb when the scan was stopped and the host has not been started. #494
- Prevent child deadlock. #491
- Memleak fixes for kb_item_get_str(). #502
- Fix denied hosts. #510
- Fix openvas-nasl. Add kb key/value for all vhosts. #533
- Wait for last plugin to finish before change to other category. #534
- Corrected function parameter names in nasl_perror calls. #539
- Various updates to the nasl_perror() error texts. #539
- Fix icmp checksum calculation in openvas-nasl. #543
- Fix ipv6 flow label in nasl_packet_forgery_v6() for openvas-nasl. #545
- Fix name of NASL internal IPPROTO_IP variable. #552
- Fix byte ordering and wrong PROTO identifier in dump_ipv6_packet() for openvas-nasl. #549
- Fix size calculation which lead to alloc error in get_tcp_element() of openvas-nasl. #546
- Fix filter out of default 'radio' type preferences #560
- Allow group access to lockfile and fix empty timestamp #562
- Do not simply abort when log file is not writable but print err msg and shutdown gracefully instead. #661
- Removed "network scan" mode. This includes removal of NASL API methods "scan_phase()" and "network_targets()". Sending a "network_mode=yes" in a scanner configuration will have no effect anymore. #493
- Display gvm-libs version in
openvas --version
output #436
- Improve handling of invalid or existent ids of nvt's preference id. #416
- Perform a scan even if there are missing plugins. #439
- Do not store in memory an empty file received as nvt preference. #409
- Fix stop scan. #414
- Fix hanging scans. #423
- Improve signal handling when update vhosts list. #426
- Wait for all children instead of waiting just for one a time. #429
- Release redis connection. [#452
7.0.0 (2019-10-11)
- An ID has been added to NVT preferences. #282
- A new NVT cross references data handling has been added. #317
- Add option --scan-stop. #352
- Add support to open an rc4 stream cipher, the function to encrypt stream data using the cipher handle, and the function to close a handler. #354
- Add one single config for redis to config/redis-openvas.conf. #370
- Vendor version is now an option in the config file. #363
- The NVT preference format has been changed. #275
- Redis supported versions must be 3.2 or higher. #287
- Log directory is now configurable. #316
- The greenbone-nvt-sync script is not allowed to run as root. #323
- OpenVAS Scanner has been renamed to OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner). #337 #343
- Retry until a host finishes and frees a db before running a new host scan, in case there is no free redis db. Therefore a infinite loop has been added when it call kb_new(). #340
- Use new nvti_add_tag() instead of plug_set_tag() and remove plug_set_tag(). #385
- Remove dead code about tags regarding former openvas settings "result_prepend_tags" and "result_append_tags". #386
- Check cache/feed errors during plugin scheduling. #358
- Vendor version is now an option in the config file. #363
- Use API for accessing NVTI elements. #365
- Allow send_packet() and send_v6packet() to send packets to broadcast/multicast.#388
- An issue with stuck scans where only a single plugin is running and is beyond its timeout has been addressed. #289
- Fix a type mismatch. Use correct format specifier for size_t. #299
- An issue which caused falling back into a default port in get_ssh_port() has been fixed. #342
- An issue which could have caused a truncated string in register_service() has been fixed. #373
- Reset redis connection after the host scan finished. This avoids to leave open fd, which cause ulimit problems. #384
- Fix mis-identification of Sphinx Search service. #387
- Set a key in redis when the scan finishes and fix stop scan using the right pid. #390
- Fix detection of finger service. #391
- Wait for zombie process in case of timed out nvts. #379
- Fix handling of file type nvt preferences. #399
- Unused be_nice scan preferences has been removed. #313
- OTP has been entirely removed in favor of using the ospd-openvas interface. #333 #351 #337 #389
- Daemon mode has been entirely removed. #337 #341
6.0.2 (unreleased)
- The call to wmiexec.py has been replaced with impacket-wmiexec, because the symlink has been added in Debian Stretch with python-impacket 0.9.15-1.
6.0.1 (2019-07-17)
- Use lowercase for values added from add_host_name(). #306
- Do not launch the scan if the nvticache is corrupted. #309
- Separate each scan plugin process into its own process group. #325
- An issue which caused the scanner to crash when a plugin is missing during a scan has been addressed. #296
- An issue which causes a scan to hang has been addressed. #301
- Issues in building process have been addressed. #308
- An issue which caused resuming task not to work was addressed. #312
- An issue which caused a possible null IP values in OTP results / HOST_END has been addressed. #321
- An issue which caused the scanner to finish instantly without any result has been addressed. #330
- Currently unused advanced_log related code has been removed. #327
6.0.0 (2019-04-05)
- Function to get the currently running script filename has been added.
- Debugging nasl mechanism has been improved, replacing preprocessor directives with g_debug facility.
- Code related to redis queries was improved.
- OpenVAS reload has been improved.
- Documentation has been improved.
- An issue related to the log facility and greenbone-nvt-sync has been fixed.
- An issue which caused nasl-lint to fail in case of unneeded nested functions has been addressed.
- An issue which caused returning erroneous values by get_plugin_preference() has been addressed.
- An issue which cause stuck scans where only a single plugin is running and is beyond its timeout has been addressed.
- Issues reported by static code analysis have been addressed.
- Issues in building process have been addressed.
- Several code improvements and clean-ups have been done.
- Unused internal_send/recv() functions have been removed.