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Fedora 22: 2015-10946 Critical OpenVAS Scanner Functionality Update

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Bump to openvas8 because of the issues found in previous versions

Summary

Scanner module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS).

Update Information:

Bump to openvas8 because of the issues found in previous versions. This should be the first version with scanner really working on Fedora.

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Change Log

* Thu Jun 25 2015 Michal Ambroz - 5.0.3-5 - fix for epel * Thu Jun 25 2015 Michal Ambroz - 5.0.3-4 - add example redis configs * Thu Jun 18 2015 Fedora Release Engineering - 5.0.3-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild * Fri May 29 2015 Michal Ambroz - 5.0.3-2 - fixing build error with gcrypt when RPM_OPT_FLAGS not used * Tue May 26 2015 Michal Ambroz - 5.0.3-1 - Update to OpenVAS-8 openvas-scanner release 5.0.3 * Sat Apr 4 2015 Michal Ambroz - 4.0.6-1 - Update to OpenVAS-7 openvas-scanner release 4.0.6

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1169170 - openvas-manager: SQL injection related to the timezone parameter [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169170

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update openvas-scanner' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: openvas-scanner
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 5.0.3
Release: 5.fc22
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Summary: Open Vulnerability Assessment (OpenVAS) Scanner

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