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ARTICLE Nessus v4.2.2 released
Thursday 15 April 2010 - 1570 read - ( Keywords : Nessus , Vulnerability Management , Vulnerability Scanner )
Nessus is the world’s most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the world’s largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.
This release contains the following fixes:
Nessus-fetch:
Proxy issues have been resolved
NASL:
Fixed a memory leak in the NASL xmlparse() function
Networking:
Fixed IPv6 routing when talking to a remote host (FreeBSD, Mac OS X)
Packet forgery was not always working on ES5 64 bits
Packaging:
Fixed the Debian /etc/rc init script
Upgraded OpenSSL to version 0.9.8n (Windows, Solaris)
Stability:
Fixed a possible crash when using a badly written custom plugin
Fixed a possible crash when running out of BPFs on Windows More Information
POSTSCRIPTUM
Download Nessus v4.2.2
- Microsoft Windows: Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7
- Mac OS X: Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard
- Linux: Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE and Ubuntu
- FreeBSD: FreeBSD 7
- Solaris: Solaris 10
COMPLIANCE MANDATES
Vulnerability Management : PCI DSS 11.2, 6.6, SOX A13.3, GLBA 16CFR Part 314.4(c), HIPAA 164.308(a)(8), FISMA RA-5, SI-2, ISO 27001-27002 12.6, 15.2.2Vulnerability Scanner : PCI DSS 11.2, 6.6, SOX A13.3, GLBA 16CFR Part 314.4(c), HIPAA 164.308(a)(8), FISMA RA-5, SI-2, ISO 27001-27002 12.6, 15.2.2
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