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. #460
• Possibility to use lcrypt with $6$ (sha512) for authentication 484
• Add function to perform an alive test and get the amount of alive hosts. 495
• Add functions for sentry integration. #502 #506
• Add basic support for mqtt. #505 #511

Changed

Fixed

Removed

21.04.1 (unreleased)

Added

• Add function to find and return a host from a host list. 490

Changed

• Make test_alive_hosts_only (Boreas) feature the new default. 503

Fixed

• Unify GLib log domains #479
• Fix double free. #499

Removed

21.04.0 (2021-04-15)

Added

• Use dedicated port list for alive detection (Boreas only) if supplied via OSP. #391
• Allow to re allocate the finish flag in the host queue for alive tests. #407 #410
• Add multiple severities for nvti #317 #472
• Add support for new OSP element for defining alive test methods via separate subelements. #409
• Add v3 handling to get_cvss_score_from_base_metrics. #411
• Add severity_date tag in epoch time format. #412
• Make more scanner preferences available to openvas-nasl. #413
• Use memory purge redis command when initializing new kb. #452

Changed

• Add separators for a new (ip address) field in ERRMSG and DEADHOST messages. #376
• Continuously send dead hosts to ospd-openvas to enable a smooth progress bar if only ICMP is chosen as alive test. #389
• Retry if response via tls1.3 is still not received. #394
• Replace current implementation of alive test arp ping with version using libnet. #423
• Let setup_log_handlers return an error if it does not have write access to some log file or log dir instead of aborting immediately. #447 #451
• Fix openvas preference name. The option was rename to "allow_simultaneous_ips". #461
• Do not start the sniffer thread when only consider alive is chosen for alive test. #466]

Fixed

• Fix finish_signal_on_queue for boreas. #464

Removed

• Remove handling of severity class from auth #402
• Remove version from the nvticache name. #386

20.8.2 (unreleased)

Added

• Add function ldap_enable_debug () #453
• Ensure that new kb taken by the scanner are always clean. #469
• Validate for max_scan_hosts scanner preference. #482

Changed

• Use a char pointer instead of an zero-lenght array as kb_redis struct member. 443
• pba verify returns INVALID instead of ERR when hash or password are null 496

Fixed

• Fixing #434 by removing the extra parentheses in base/networking.c #437
• Adding initialization to struct scanner in boreas/util_tests.c. #438
• Fix warnings about uninitialized variables. #448
• Split the log message into smaller pieces when syslog is the log destination. #455

Removed

20.8.1 (2021-02-01)

Added

• Add function to get duplicated hosts from the hosts list. #387
• Add file access tests using effective UID/GID #422

Changed

• Reduce ping timeout when using test_alive_hosts_only feature. #400
• Retry if response via tls1.3 is still not received. #404

Fixed

• Fix port list for tcp pings when using test_alive_hosts_only feature. #392
• Set source address correctly and do not try to send ARP to unreachable destination. #401
• Increase minimum gpgme version #405
• Always NULL check ifaddrs->ifa_addr #416
• Correct g_hash_table_remove arg #419
• Accept underscore as valid char in hostname strings #430
• Add throttle for pinging with test_alive_hosts_only feature when socket buffer is full. #429

20.8.0 (2020-08-12)

Added

• Add nvti_get_tag() #285
• Add nvti_solution_method() and nvti_set_solution_method() #283
• Extend osp with target's alive test option.#312
• Extend osp with target's reverse_lookup_* options.#314
• Add unit tests for osp. #315
• Add support for test_alive_hosts_only feature of openvas. #320
• Add function to set and get the NVT QoD. #321
• Add unit tests for networking.c port list functions. #325
• Add gmp_start_task_ext_c. #327
• Make log mutex visible. #328
• Add new scan status QUEUED. #336 #340
• Add gvm_routethrough which is used by Boreas alive detection module. #339
• Move alive detection module Boreas into gvm-libs. #346
• Add new scan status INTERRUPTED. #356
• Add sensible default values for osp_get_vts_opts_t. #360
• Add cli support for boreas standalone tool. #359

Changed

• Improve validation in is_hostname #353
• Use get_vts instead of get_version to get the feed version is osp_get_vts_version(). #357
• Allow all alive test combination for boreas. #370

Fixed

• Fix is_cidr_block(). #322
• Fix is_cidr6_block() and is_short_range_network(). #337
• Fix S/MIME keylist and improve error handling #345
• Fix interrupted state by sending correct number of dead hosts. #371

Removed

• Remove parallel from target options #347
• Remove zero padding from version #377

11.0.1 (2020-05-12)

Added

• Add option to set finished hosts in OSP targets #298
• Add a fast memory-only XML parser #299
• Add new function gvm_libs_version #301

Changed

• Don't create an entity tree during read_string_c. #305

Fixed

• Fix sigsegv when no plugin_feed_info.inc file present. #278
• Fix missing linking to libgnutls in util/CMakeLists.txt. #291
• Free string in all error exit cases #308
• Fix trust and file handling for S/MIME #309
• Get details with get_reports in gmp_get_report_ext #313
• Fix escaping entity attributes in print_entity_to_string #318
• Fix is_cidr_block() #323
• Fix is_cidr6_block() and is_short_range_network(). #338

11.0.0 (2019-10-11)

Added

• Allow to configure the path to the redis socket via CMake #256
• A new data model for unified handling of cross references in the NVT meta data as been added. All previous API elements to handle cve, bid, xref have been removed. #225 #232.
• Add function to get an osp scan status and a enum type for the different status #259
• API functions for NVTI to handle timestamps #261
• API function for NVTI to add a single tag #263
• Add osp_get_performance_ext() function. #262
• Add libldap2-dev to prerequisites. #249
• Add function osp_get_vts_filtered(). #251
• Add explicit attributes in nvti struct. #258

Changed

• Change the default path to the redis socket to /run/redis/redis.sock #256
• Handle EAI_AGAIN in gvm_host_reverse_lookup() IPv6 case and function refactor. #229
• Prevent g_strsplit to be called with NULL. #238
• Timestamps for NVTI modification date and creation date now internally handled as seconds since epoch. #265
• The tag cvss_base is not added to redis anymore. #267
• Functions in osp.c with error as argument, will set the error if the connection is missing. #268
• Make QoD Type an explicit element of struct nvti. #250
• Use API to access nvti information. #252
• Make the nvti struct internal. #253
• Make solution and solution_type explicit for nvti. #255
• Internalize struct nvtpref_t. #260
• Extend redis connection error msg with actual path. #264
• Disable testhosts test as it's not really a test. #287
• Don't create an entity tree during read_string_c. #305

Fixed

• Prevent g_strsplit to be called with NULL. #238
• Check filter before using it in osp_get_vts_ext. #266

Removed

• Remove inconsistent delays in kb routines. #230

10.0.1 (2019-07-17)

Added

• Allow multiple certificate formats for S/MIME. #231
• Add cmake options to build with ldap and radius support. #235

Changed

• Always add hostnames and vhosts in lower-case format. #218
• Plugin feed version file: Show message only once if it is not found. #220
• Use g_log instead of g_debug for No redis DB available message. #224

Fixed

• Fix prefs key in nvticache_delete(). #214
• Fix redis_find(). #216
• Fixes to gvm_hosts_resolve(). #228

10.0.0 (2019-04-05)

Changed

• The function gvm_hosts_shuffle has been improved. #200

Fixed

• An issue which caused duplicated or removed values in the nvticache as addressed. #196
• Performance fixes related to handling large sets of hosts have been done.203 #208
• Memory management issues have been addressed. #187