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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

22.4 (unreleased)

Added

  • Add support for volatile keys. #682
  • Extend nasl lint to check Syntax for Arguments for script_xref() function. #714
  • Recheck alive status of host with specified amount of NVT timeouts. #729
  • Integrate sentry for debugging purposes #742
  • Add support for non-interactive shell to nasl_ssh_shell_open(). #744 #757
  • Add message type validation for proto_post_wrapped. #805
  • Add nasl function sftp_enabled_check() to check if sftp subsystem is enabled in the target.
  • Add find_all to eregmatch() nasl function. Backport PR #875. #876
  • Add nasl functions for checking ssl/tls secure renegotiation and performing re-handshake. #889
  • Fix Segmentation fault when freeing hosts and alive hosts #888

Changed

  • function script_bugtraq_id getting skipped, linter warns. #724
  • Refactor dead host status sending. #807
  • Refactor openvas.c. #810 #811
  • Handle script timeout as script preference with ID 0 #844

Fixed

  • Use fchmod to change file permission instead of on open to prevent race conditions 854
  • Several minor potential security risks in different files, spotted by Code QL 854
  • Fix plugins upload. Backport #878 #880
  • Fix Error Message when NVTI chache init failed. Backport #885 #887
  • Fix Segmentation fault when freeing hosts and alive hosts #888

Removed

  • Remove handling of source_iface related preferences. #730

21.4.3 (unreleased)

Added

  • Add nasl function sftp_enabled_check() to check if sftp subsystem is enabled in the target.

Changed

  • Changed defaults for installation locations #826
    • SYSCONFDIR is /etc by default now
    • LOCALSTATEDIR is /var by default now
    • OPENVAS_RUN_DIR is /run/ospd by default now
    • OPENVAS_FEED_LOCK_PATH is /var/lib/openvas/feed-update.lock by default now

Deprecated

Removed

Fixed

  • Fix interrupted scan, when the process table is full. #832
  • Use fchmod to change file permission instead of on open to prevent race conditions 854
  • Fix plugins upload #878
  • Fix Error Message when NVTI chache init failed #885
  • Fix potential segfault.#884

21.4.2 - 2021-08-03

Fixed

  • Fix clang-analyzer warnings. #791 #795

21.4.1 - 2021-06-23

Added

  • Improve nasl linter to catch more cases of undeclared variables. #728
  • Add deprecation warning for source_iface related settings which will be removed with the 22.4 release. #732
  • New Credentials for SSH to get su privileges. Backport of #744. #753

Changed

  • Update default log config #711

Fixed

  • Use host from the original hosts list when boreas is enabled. #725
  • Initialize the the kb to store results for openvas-nasl #735
  • Fix unittest. Mock kb_lnk_reset. #748

Removed

21.4.0 - 2021-04-15

Added

  • Add scanner-only option to enable tls debugging. #558
  • Extend nasl lint to detect if function parameter is used twice. #585
  • Add option to specify if a host can be scanned through its IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel. #604 #645
  • Add insert_tcp_options and insert_tcp_v6_options nasl functions. #618
  • Add get_tcp_option and extend dump_tcp_packet nasl functions. #621
  • Add new scanner only option for spawning NASL functions with a different owner. #634
  • Add debug logs for allow_simultaneous_ips=no. #685
  • Add min_free_mem and max_sysload scanner only options. #690

Changed

  • Store results in main_kb instead of host_kb. #550
  • Also use internal function name in some nasl log messages. #611
  • Move more scanner preferences to gvm-libs to make them available for openvas-nasl. #614

Removed

  • Use the nvticache name from gvm-libs, defined in nvticache.h. #578

20.8.4 (unreleased)

Added

Changed

  • Changed defaults for installation locations #826
    • SYSCONFDIR is /etc by default now
    • LOCALSTATEDIR is /var by default now
    • OPENVAS_RUN_DIR is /run/ospd by default now
    • OPENVAS_FEED_LOCK_PATH is /var/lib/openvas/feed-update.lock by default now

Deprecated

Removed

Fixed

20.8.3 - 2021-08-03

Fixed

  • Fix clang-analyzer warnings. #791 #795

20.8.2 - 2021-06-23

Added

  • Check for wrong names or values in the script_xrefs params. #650 #653
  • Log a message if the scanner did not launch all plugins against a host. #700 #734

Changed

  • Replace bogus data with a better message and the vendor. #665
  • Improve log message for WMI connect failed or missing WMI support. #670
  • Don't use g_error. Use g_warning instead and let the scanner to continue. #710
  • Update COPYING file. #750
  • Set file permissions when syncing community feed #769

Fixed

  • Fix issues discovered with clang compiler. #654
  • Fix gcc-9 and gcc-10 warnings. #655
  • Fix double free in nasl_cert_query. #658
  • Fix message to the client if there is a iface problem. #695
  • Fix SIGSEGV when no best route is found. #702
  • Fix host count when reverse_lookup_only is enabled. #715
  • Use host from the original hosts list when boreas is enabled. Backport of PR #727. #725
  • The function description of nasl_ssh_shell_read() has been fixed. #755

Removed

  • Remove code from the openvas daemon era. Do not flushall redis. #689
  • Remove deprecated option logfile. #713

20.8.1 - 2021-02-01

Added

  • Extend nasl lint to detect if function parameter is used twice. #590
  • Add support for TLSv1.3. #588#598
  • Add alternative for supporting snmp during scans. #594
  • Add resolve_hostname_to_multiple_ips() NASL function. #596
  • Add dump_icmp_packet() and dump_icmp_v6_packet() nasl functions. #609
  • Send message to the client with hosts count. #606
  • Use nasl_perror on invalid input and add more documentation. #608
  • Add timeout argument to ssh_connect() nasl function to set the connection timeout. 631

Changed

  • Downgrade wmi queries log level for common errors. #602 #607
  • Rename some nasl functions and func parameters for consistency and fix byte order issue in get_ipv6_element. #613
  • Change log level from debug to message to show max_host and max_scan during scan start. #626
  • Changed the redis-openvas.conf, so that it is compliant with the 5.0+ version(s) of redis. #668

Fixed

  • Fork vhosts before creating the socket.#576
  • Check if another forked child has already added the same vhost. #581
  • Send duplicated hosts as dead hosts to ospd, to adjust scan progress calculation. #586
  • Only send the signal if the pid is a positive value. #593
  • When routes with same mask are found the route with the better metric is chosen. #593 #639
  • Fix malformed target. #625
  • Fix snmp result. Only return the value and do not stop at the first \n. #627
  • Fix masking of IPv6 addresses. #635
  • Fix technique switch for getting the appropriate interface to use for IPv6 dst addr. #636
  • Fix host count. Set to -1 when the target string is invalid. #646

[20.8.0] - 2020-08-11

Added

  • Create greenbone-nvt-sync create lock file during feed sync. #458 #459
  • Extend script_get_preference() to get the value by id. #470
  • Add extended environmental variables info to greenbone-nvt-sync help text. #488
  • Extend nasl functions which generate results with optional "uri" parameter #526
  • Add nasl function to get the host kb index. #530
  • Print the filter used by pcap in the error message. #537 #540

Changed

  • The logging of the NASL internal regexp functions was extended to include the pattern in case of a failed regcomp(). #397
  • Add config for gpg keyring path (OPENVAS_GPG_BASE_DIR) #407
  • Use func instead of FUNCTION #419
  • Use pcap_findalldevs() instead of deprecated function pcap_lookupdev() #422 #430
  • Add port-range option for openvas-nasl #431
  • Add test_alive_hosts_only feature. #456
  • Don't reload the plugins when start a new scan. #458
  • Drop http feed sync. #478
  • Add aligned summary to log at scan end. #496
  • Unify log messages about start/end of scan and of hosts. #500
  • Use flock to lock the feed lock file. #507
  • Move alive detection module (Boreas) into gvm-libs #519
  • Allow to set all legal types of icmp v6 in icmp header in openvas-nasl. #542
  • The output of the NASL dump_* packet forgery functions was made consistent. #555
  • Make drop_privileges setting a scanner-only preference. #557
  • Feed lock path is now configurable. #574

Fixed

  • Improve signal handling when update vhosts list. #425
  • Wait for all children instead of waiting just for one a time. #428
  • Don't detect MongoDB as a HTTP service. #447
  • Set status finished and send a message if the port list is invalid. #453
  • Fix format-truncation warning in GCC 8.2 and later. #461
  • Clean the new kb when the scan was stopped and the host has not been started. #494
  • Prevent child deadlock. #491
  • Memleak fixes for kb_item_get_str(). #502
  • Fix denied hosts. #510
  • Fix openvas-nasl. Add kb key/value for all vhosts. #533
  • Wait for last plugin to finish before change to other category. #534
  • Corrected function parameter names in nasl_perror calls. #539
  • Various updates to the nasl_perror() error texts. #539
  • Fix icmp checksum calculation in openvas-nasl. #543
  • Fix ipv6 flow label in nasl_packet_forgery_v6() for openvas-nasl. #545
  • Fix name of NASL internal IPPROTO_IP variable. #552
  • Fix byte ordering and wrong PROTO identifier in dump_ipv6_packet() for openvas-nasl. #549
  • Fix size calculation which lead to alloc error in get_tcp_element() of openvas-nasl. #546
  • Fix filter out of default 'radio' type preferences #560
  • Allow group access to lockfile and fix empty timestamp #562
  • Do not simply abort when log file is not writable but print err msg and shutdown gracefully instead. #661

Removed

  • Removed "network scan" mode. This includes removal of NASL API methods "scan_phase()" and "network_targets()". Sending a "network_mode=yes" in a scanner configuration will have no effect anymore. #493

7.0.1

Added

  • Display gvm-libs version in openvas --version output #436

Changed

  • Improve handling of invalid or existent ids of nvt's preference id. #416
  • Perform a scan even if there are missing plugins. #439

Fixed

  • Do not store in memory an empty file received as nvt preference. #409
  • Fix stop scan. #414
  • Fix hanging scans. #423
  • Improve signal handling when update vhosts list. #426
  • Wait for all children instead of waiting just for one a time. #429
  • Release redis connection. [#452

7.0.0 (2019-10-11)

Added

  • An ID has been added to NVT preferences. #282
  • A new NVT cross references data handling has been added. #317
  • Add option --scan-stop. #352
  • Add support to open an rc4 stream cipher, the function to encrypt stream data using the cipher handle, and the function to close a handler. #354
  • Add one single config for redis to config/redis-openvas.conf. #370

Changed

  • Vendor version is now an option in the config file. #363
  • The NVT preference format has been changed. #275
  • Redis supported versions must be 3.2 or higher. #287
  • Log directory is now configurable. #316
  • The greenbone-nvt-sync script is not allowed to run as root. #323
  • OpenVAS Scanner has been renamed to OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner). #337 #343
  • Retry until a host finishes and frees a db before running a new host scan, in case there is no free redis db. Therefore a infinite loop has been added when it call kb_new(). #340
  • Use new nvti_add_tag() instead of plug_set_tag() and remove plug_set_tag(). #385
  • Remove dead code about tags regarding former openvas settings "result_prepend_tags" and "result_append_tags". #386
  • Check cache/feed errors during plugin scheduling. #358
  • Vendor version is now an option in the config file. #363
  • Use API for accessing NVTI elements. #365
  • Allow send_packet() and send_v6packet() to send packets to broadcast/multicast.#388

Fixed

  • An issue with stuck scans where only a single plugin is running and is beyond its timeout has been addressed. #289
  • Fix a type mismatch. Use correct format specifier for size_t. #299
  • An issue which caused falling back into a default port in get_ssh_port() has been fixed. #342
  • An issue which could have caused a truncated string in register_service() has been fixed. #373
  • Reset redis connection after the host scan finished. This avoids to leave open fd, which cause ulimit problems. #384
  • Fix mis-identification of Sphinx Search service. #387
  • Set a key in redis when the scan finishes and fix stop scan using the right pid. #390
  • Fix detection of finger service. #391
  • Wait for zombie process in case of timed out nvts. #379
  • Fix handling of file type nvt preferences. #399

Removed

  • Unused be_nice scan preferences has been removed. #313
  • OTP has been entirely removed in favor of using the ospd-openvas interface. #333 #351 #337 #389
  • Daemon mode has been entirely removed. #337 #341

6.0.2 (unreleased)

Changed

  • The call to wmiexec.py has been replaced with impacket-wmiexec, because the symlink has been added in Debian Stretch with python-impacket 0.9.15-1.

6.0.1 (2019-07-17)

Added

Changed

  • Use lowercase for values added from add_host_name(). #306
  • Do not launch the scan if the nvticache is corrupted. #309
  • Separate each scan plugin process into its own process group. #325

Fixed

  • An issue which caused the scanner to crash when a plugin is missing during a scan has been addressed. #296
  • An issue which causes a scan to hang has been addressed. #301
  • Issues in building process have been addressed. #308
  • An issue which caused resuming task not to work was addressed. #312
  • An issue which caused a possible null IP values in OTP results / HOST_END has been addressed. #321
  • An issue which caused the scanner to finish instantly without any result has been addressed. #330

Removed

  • Currently unused advanced_log related code has been removed. #327

6.0.0 (2019-04-05)

Added

  • Function to get the currently running script filename has been added.

Changed

  • Debugging nasl mechanism has been improved, replacing preprocessor directives with g_debug facility.
  • Code related to redis queries was improved.
  • OpenVAS reload has been improved.
  • Documentation has been improved.

Fixed

  • An issue related to the log facility and greenbone-nvt-sync has been fixed.
  • An issue which caused nasl-lint to fail in case of unneeded nested functions has been addressed.
  • An issue which caused returning erroneous values by get_plugin_preference() has been addressed.
  • An issue which cause stuck scans where only a single plugin is running and is beyond its timeout has been addressed.
  • Issues reported by static code analysis have been addressed.
  • Issues in building process have been addressed.
  • Several code improvements and clean-ups have been done.

Removed

  • Unused internal_send/recv() functions have been removed.