Download Nessus 2.0.1

The developers of Nessus have once again delighted us with a new version, which has been dubbed 2.0.1. The following release notes are available.

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. Nessus is very fast, reliable and has a modular architecture that allows you to fit it to your needs.

What is new in Nessus 2.0.1, compared to 2.0.0 :

• changes by Renaud Deraison (deraison at cvs.nessus.org)
• Minor bug fixes (bugs #180, #183, #185, #188, #189, #195, #197, #202, #203, #20 4)
• Fixed the “pink” graphical report issue
• Added http keep-alive support in the CGI related plugins
• Fixed a bug in the function get_kb_list() which would not always work properly
• Fixed an issue where in some situations, some HTTP services would not be tested for flaws if they have not been port-scanned first
• Added new signatures in find_services.nes
• changes by Stephen Friedl (steve at unixwiz.net)
• Fixed bugs and warnings in nessus libraries

What is new in Nessus 2.0, compared to 1.2 :

• Huge speed gains :
  • libnasl has been rewritten from scratch
  • extended the NASL language
  • Smarter plugin scheduler, for better parallelism
  • Enhanced service detection
  • Greatly reduced memory usage
  • Support for multiple CVE and BID in the plugins
  • New port scanner designed to be fast against firewalled hosts