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OpenVAS Libraries v9.0.2

07 Mar 11:55
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This is the second maintenance release of the openvas-libraries 9.0
module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System 9 (OpenVAS-9).

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
Hani Benhabiles, Francesco Colista, Juan José Nicola, Timo Pollmeier and Björn
Ricks, Michael Wiegand, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Matt Mundell and Albrecht Dreß.

Main changes compared to 9.0.1:

  • Several memory management issues have been addressed.
  • NASL cryptography support has been updated.
  • Signature handling has been improved.
  • Child process signal handling has been improved.
  • Support for retrieving the prompt during keyboard-interactive SSH
    authentication has been added.
  • An issue which caused a segmentation fault in the NASL command
    'get_port_state' under certain circumstances has been addressed.
  • An issue which caused incorrect NTLMSSP hashes under certain circumstances has
    been addressed.
  • Handling of connections closed by the client has been improved.
  • The default connection timeout when detecting services has been increased.
  • The handling of a number of frequently requested knowledge base keys has been
    improved.
  • More context to NVT/NASL related log messages has been added.
  • An issue which caused an error during close() call on UDP sockets from a NASL
    script has been addressed.
  • Support for retrieving vendor version information through a NASL command has
    been added.
  • Handling of SIGPIPE from hiredis in case of a socket disconnect has been added.
  • Handling of Redis connection error has been improved.
  • An issue which caused several running processes on scanned host under
    certain circumstances has been addressed.
  • Support for ldap search during the authentication process has been added.
  • Simplify scanner signatures verification. NVT's detached signatures were
    replaced with a digitally signed file with the hash list of the NVTs.
  • Full nvticache has been moved from .nvti files to Redis
  • Support for radcli library has been added.
  • Cleanup and handle of the kb content has been improved.