Nessus
Platforms:
FreeBSD,
IRIX,
Linux,
NetBSD,
OpenBSD,
Solaris
Categories:
Auditing,
General,
Network,
Ports,
RPC,
Trojans & Backdoors,
Web
Version: v2.0.9
URL: http://www.nessus.org/
Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other Unices. It is multi-threaded and plug-in-based, has a GTK interface, and performs over 500 remote security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML, XML, LaTeX, and ASCII text, and suggests solutions for security problems.
Bruce Campbell
re: Nessus (excellent tool by the way)
in /usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins/ssh_crc32.nasl
the name of the vulnerability (SSH1 CRC32 compensation
attack) is correct, but the description and risk
factor are incorrect.
Remove...
> This version is vulnerable to a flaw which
> allows an attac...
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