gvm-libs 20.8.4

20.8.4 - 2021-10-11

Added

• Add function to duplicate host and vhost objects #592

Changed

• Use better defaults for installation directories #574
  • SYSCONFDIR is /etc by default now
  • LOCALSTATEDIR is /var by default now
  • Introduced GVM_RUN_DIR that uses /run/gvm by default
  • GVM_PID_DIR is /run/gvm by default now

Fixed

gvm-libs 21.4.2

21.4.2 - 2021-08-03

Fixed

• Fix info msg when 0 alive hosts are left to scan and max_scan_hosts limit is reached. No message will be generated for that case anymore. #564

gvm-libs 20.8.3

20.8.3 - 2021-08-03

Fixed

• Fix info msg when 0 alive hosts are left to scan and max_scan_hosts limit is reached. No message will be generated for that case anymore. #561

gvm-libs 21.4.1

21.4.1 - 2021-06-23

Added

• Possibility to use lcrypt with $6$ (sha512) for authentication 484
• 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

gvm-libs 20.8.2

20.8.2 - 2021-06-23

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
• Possibility to use lcrypt with $6$ (sha512) for authentication 484
• Add function to find and return a host from a host list. Backport of PR 490. 494.

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
• Initialize reallocated memory in gvm_hosts_add #520

Removed

GVM Libraries v21.4.0

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

GVM Libraries v20.8.1

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

GVM Libraries v20.8.0

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

GVM Libraries v11.0.1

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

GVM Libraries v10.0.2

This is the second patch release of the gvm-libs module 10.0 for the
Greenbone Vulnerability Management 10 (GVM-10) framework.

Main changes compared to gvm-libs 10.0.1:

• Fix trust and file handling for S/MIME
• Don't create an entity tree during read_string_c