Download Nessus 1.2.6

We have arrived at version 1.2.6 of Nessus. If you don’t know what this software contains, you can draw some more knowledge from the following quote:

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 and determine whether bad guys (aka ‘crackers’) may break into it, or misuse it in some way. [break] Below is the changelog: [/break]What is new in Nessus 1.2.6, in comparison to 1.2.5:

• changes by Michael Slifcak (Michael.Slifcak at guardent.com)
  • Added Bugtraq cross reference in the plugins
  • Added support for BID in nessusd (this has yet to be done on the client side)
• changes by Axel Nennker (Axel.Nennker at t-systems.com)
  • fixed the xml and html outputs
  • fixed array issues in a couple of plugins
• changes by Michel Arboi (arboi at bigfoot.com)
  • find_service now detects services protected by TCP wrappers or ACL
  • find_service detects gnuserv
  • ptyexecvp() replaced by nessus_popen()
• • changes by Renaud Deraison (deraison at cvs.nessus.org)
  • Fixed a bug which may make nasl interpret backquoted strings (n and r) received from the network (problem noted by Pavel Kankovsky)
  • nmap_wrapper.nes calls _exit() instead of exit()
  • Solved the lack of bpf’s on Free/Open/NetBSD and MacOSX by sharing _one_ among all the Nessus processes. As a result, Nessus’s ping is much more effective on these platforms
  • bugfix in plug_set_key() which would eventually make some scripts take too long when writing in the KB
  • Plugins of family ACT_SETTINGS are run *after* plugins of family ACT_SCANNERS
  • replaced the implementation of md5 which was used when OpenSSL is disabled by the one from RSA (the old one would not work on a big-endian host)

  Fixed plugins build issues on MacOS X

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