CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

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

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

21.10 (unreleased)

Added

• Add support for volatile keys. #682
• Extend nasl lint to check Syntax for Arguments for script_xref() function. #714

Changed

Fixed

Removed

21.04.1 (unreleased)

Added

Changed

• Update default log config #711

Fixed

Removed

21.04.0 (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

20.08.2 (unreleased)

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

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

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

Removed

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

20.08.1 (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

20.08 (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.