Download Nessus 2.2.5

Nessus is a security scanner that can scan a network for known exploits and open services. Please note that the program may only be used if you have permission to check the security of the network. The long list exploits and open services can be further expanded with your own written scripts. The package runs on most Posix systems including MacOS X, FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris, among others. The developers have recently released version 2.2.5 with the following announcement:

Nessus 2.2.5, a maintenance release, has been released. It fixes several minor bugs and contains some speed improvements.

(Slight) Speed ​​improvements:

• Faster scan startup speed (at the expense of a slightly bigger memory usage).
• Faster scans in general

Depending on the speed of your hard drive and the OS you’re running on, you may experience up to 15% speed improvement.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed the use of an uninitialized buffer in the shared socket code
• Fixed some uninitialized variables in nessus_tcp_scanner
• Fixed several null pointer dereferencements in libnasl
• Several other minor bugs have been fixed (see bugs.nessus.org for details)

Misc:

• New NASL function ‘send_capture()’
• nessusd rotates nessusd.messages on startup if the file is too big
• Enhanced nessus_tcp_scanner
• nessus-fetch now calls nessus-update-plugins upon registration

If you already have a copy of Nessus installed, please note that the Nessus installer makes clean upgrades – no need to uninstall the older version prior to upgrading, and no need to re-register to get a new activation code for the plugin feed.