Nessus 5.0.1 - Vulnerability scanner
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The Nessus vulnerability scanner is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus is the world’s most widely-deployed vulnerability and configuration assessment product
Official change log for Nessus 5.0.1:
- Resolved an issue whereas packet forgery was not working on some Windows setups
- Improved the Windows installer which would fail on some setups
- Fixed several thread synchronization issues leading to a crash in certain situations
- Imported v1 reports are more legible
- Nessus can now read a 64-bit database on a 32-bit system and vice-versa
- Identified and resolved a minor memory leak issue occurring on all platforms
- Scanning with a SSL certificate defined in the policy would sometimes cause a scanner crash
- Workaround for CVE-2011-3389
- Worked around a possible incompatibility with the Fedora 16 / Debian 6 memory allocator
- Restored the ability to log in via certificate authentication on port 1241 when “force_pubkey_auth = no“
- This version of Nessus now includes OpenSSL version 1.0.0h
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