All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog.
- Create greenbone-nvt-sync create lock file during feed sync. #458 #459
- Fix format-truncation warning in GCC 8.2 and later. #461
- 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
- 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
7.0.1 (unreleased)
- Display gvm-libs version in
openvas --versionoutput #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.