Category Archives: Pentesting

Nessus 4.2

Nessus 4.2 is out.

I tried it out and I must say that the new UI is great. I am not a big fan of Flash and I regret this choice. However, the design is excellent, all options are accessible in a logical way. Instead of spreading over the options like it used to be, they come to you in the right order.

I also appreciate that the server and the client set-up are now unified thanks to the web interface (you can access it from localhost or from the network indifferently).

The report section has also been greatly improved.

So, if you were already an Nessus user, it is worth upgrading.

Talking about the set-up, there is an up-to-date package for openSUSE (of course, there are a lot less dependencies than before).

No Nessus gui client and limited support of the server for openSUSE

As I work on security, I used to use Nessus on my openSUSE system.

But it seems that Tenable Network Security dropped support for the client on our favorite distribution.

At least, for some reason, they stopped making an universal statically linked binary (though they keep doing it for the server part) and it hasn’t changed since april.

Even the server has a rather limited and obsolete support of openSUSE 10, whereas Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora have support for various versions and architectures. Check there.

This is rather a shame, as openSUSE is one of the major distribution.

I tried some workarounds like converting the deb packages, but, as expected, there are some dependancies issues.

So far, it seems that not many people are affected, because there are not many voices on the forum. I can live without it, but however, this is often a nice and useful tool.

Does anyone use it here ? Or did you get it to work somehow ? If you feel concerned, please let it know to Tenable !