Nessus vulnerability scanner 5.0.2 update
http://kingofdkingz99.blogspot.com/2012/10/nessus-vulnerability-scanner-502-update.html
The Nessus Project aims to provide to the internet community a free, powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote security scanner. A security scanner is a software which will audit remotely a given network.Nessus is the world’s most widely-deployed vulnerability and configuration assessment product
Official change log for Nessus 5.0.2:
Fixes:- 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 ;
- Smarter max_hosts and global.max_hosts defaults
- Added support for named virtual hosts for IPv6
- Fixed a memory leak when mixing IPv4 and IPv6 targets
- Fixed the systemd control script (Fedora 16)
- Fixed a crash in nessus-mkcert on the command-line (Win32)
- Fixed a crash in localtime(), when passed an invalid argument (Win32)
- Fixed scratchpad_query() to allow NULL arguments
- PSSDK fix (Win32)
