Tenable Announces the Release of Nessus 3.0.6

June 26, 2007 · Columbia, MD

Tenable Network Security, Inc. is proud to announce the availability of Nessus 3.0.6 for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.

This release contains the following fixes and enhancements:

  • Fixed a cross site scripting vulnerability in the Windows GUI
  • Fixed a possible segfault condition occurring when multiple clients simultaneously log into the nessusd server
  • Fixed a memory leak in nasl scripts containing a function on_exit()
  • Improved performance when logging into nessusd
  • The scan does not fail any more if the main nessusd process runs out of file descriptors (this would occur on Solaris with max_host set to a value higher than 200)
  • Several fixes in the NASL interpreter
  • Builds for Fedora Core 7 and Red Hat ES 5

Tenable would like to thank to Japanese CERT for having notified us about the Windows cross site scripting issue.