[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: openvas-cli-1.4.5-3.fc26

OpenVAS CLI contains the command line tool "omp" which allows to create bat ch processes to drive OpenVAS Manager...

Adding third party nasl plugins to OpenVAS

If you want to develop nasl plugins for OpenVAS, you might be interested how to import them in scanner. So, I was also interested. First of all, I decided to copy one of existing nasl scripts. I chose script that successfully detected vulnerability on a target host. Thus, in the case of importing...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3887-1 (glibc - security update)

The Qualys Research Labs discovered various problems in the dynamic linker of the GNU C Library which allow local privilege escalation by clashing the stack. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3887.nasl 6618 2017-07-07 14:17:52Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3887-1 using nvtgen 1.0...

Kali Linux 2017.1 Release

As with all new releases, you have the common denominator of updated packages, an updated kernel that provides more and better hardware support, as well as a slew of updated tools – but this release has a few more surprises up its sleeve. Support for RTL8812AU Wireless Card Injection These driver...

Installing OpenVAS 9 from the sources

In last month Greenbone Networks and OpenVAS development team have finally presented new OpenVAS 9 with new GUI, improved multi-scanner support, improved asset management, etc. We have been waiting for this release for 2 years! Upd. Please note, that entire procedure for separating scanners onto...

Collaborative Penetration Test & Vulnerability Management Platform: Faraday

Collaborative Penetration Test & Vulnerability Management Platform Faraday introduces a new concept – IPE Integrated Penetration-Test Environment a multiuser Penetration test IDE. Designed for distribution, indexation and analysis of the data generated during a security audit. The main purpose of...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3741-1 (tor - security update)

It was discovered that Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system, may read one byte past a buffer when parsing hidden service descriptors. This issue may enable a hostile hidden service to crash Tor clients depending on hardening options and malloc implementation. OpenVAS...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3739-1 (tomcat8 - security update)

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, as well as in its Debian-specific maintainer scripts. Those flaws allowed for privilege escalation, information disclosure, and remote code execution. As part of this update, several regressions stemming from...

Fedora Update for openvas-scanner FEDORA-2016-73e509d4e4

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for openvas-manager FEDORA-2016-73e509d4e4

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Fedora Update for openvas-libraries FEDORA-2016-73e509d4e4

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for openvas-gsa FEDORA-2016-73e509d4e4

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3724-1 (gst-plugins-good0.10 - security update)

Chris Evans discovered that the GStreamer 0.10 plugin used to decode files in the FLIC format allowed execution of arbitrary code. Further details can be found in his advisory at https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-exploit-advancing-exploitation.html This update removes the insecu...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3713-1 (gst-plugins-bad0.10 - security update)

Chris Evans discovered that the GStreamer 0.10 plugin to decode NES Sound Format files allowed the execution of arbitrary code. Further details can be found in his advisory at http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-exploit-compromising-linux-desktop.html . OpenVAS Vulnerability Test...

Fedora 25 : openvas-gsa / openvas-libraries / openvas-manager / openvas-scanner (2016-73e509d4e4)

Bump to the latest patch release of the openvas 8.0 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Fedora Update for openvas-gsa FEDORA-2016-63633ea21c

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for openvas-libraries FEDORA-2016-63633ea21c

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for openvas-scanner FEDORA-2016-b9ab1def88

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for openvas-libraries FEDORA-2016-b9ab1def88

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for openvas-gsa FEDORA-2016-b9ab1def88

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...