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OpenVAS Scanner v5.1.2

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@jjnicola jjnicola released this 07 Mar 12:01
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This is the second maintenance release of the openvas-scanner 5.1 module
for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System 9 (OpenVAS-9).

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release:
Hani Benhabiles, Björn Ricks, Michael Wiegand, and Juan José Nicola.

Main changes compared to 5.1.1:

  • Plugin scheduling has been improved.
  • An issue which caused segmentation faults under certain circumstances when
    openvas-scanner was built with GnuTLS < 3.3.0 has been addressed.
  • The use of hostname and IP while logging has been made more consistent.
  • An issue which caused NVTs to be executed out of sequence has been addressed.
  • An issue which caused the main scanner process to terminate prematurely when
    receiving a SIGHUP signal under certain circumstances has been addressed.
  • Increased dependency for openvas-libraries from 9.0.0 to 9.0.2.
  • A Redis error is considered fatal and all running scans are stopped. A
    message is sent to the client and the NVTs are reloaded.
  • A new progress bar style in which dead host are not taken in account was
    added, which makes more time realistic the progress bar.
  • An issue which caused low scan performance has been addressed.
  • The preference log_whole_attack is now an scanner-only preference.
  • Several memory management issues have been addressed.
  • Load-up plugins process is now a forked child process, which prevent main
    process memory footprint growth.
  • Plugin preferences are sent directly to the client.
  • Full nvticache has been moved from .nvti files to Redis.
  • An issue with dependency cycle detection has been addressed.
  • An issue which cause complete deletion of nvticache before reloading has
    been addressed.