Nessus 5.0.2 vulnerability scanner updates
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Nessus is the world’s most widely-deployed vulnerability and configuration assessment product updated to version 5.0.2 .Nessus 5 features high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery, patch management integration, and vulnerability analysis of your security posture with features that enhance usability, effectiveness, efficiency, and communication with all parts of your organization.
Nessus 5.0.2 change logs:
- UTF8 encoding problems would sometimes cause the generation of reports to fail
- Fixed a case where generating some compliance checks reports would cause the scanner to hang, using 100% of the CPU
- Resolved a resource leak issue occurring when a large number of different users are connected at the same time .
- Network congestion errors are now detected more conservatively
- Upgraded libxml2, libxslt, openssl to their newest versions
- Some nessusd.rules directives were not honored by the port scanners
- Solaris 10 build
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