Re: Holes/warnings all show Sambar text

["Steve Bonds" <sxm4qcu02_at_sneakemail.com>]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, George Theall theall-at-tifaware.com |nessus| wrote:

> I've seen this a couple of times, and each time the problem's arisen
> because I've upgraded Nessus and the cached plugin descriptions somehow
> no longer agreed with the newer version. Shutting down the daemon,
> removing the directory ".desc" in the plugins directory, and restarting
> the daemon solved the problem.

I've cleared out all nessus files from the system a couple of times now,
just in case something like this was creating an issue.

Symptom 2 seems to result from the plugins getting SEGV aborts, which is
not the best way to handle this situation.  It looks like when the plugins
abort, the server treats this as if they completed successfully with no
security holes found-- not my choice of failure modes!  :-)  If it has to
fail, I'd rather it failed safe by listing a genericish security warning
that the plugin was unable to complete its checks.

This problem seems to be specific to the system where I'd like to run the
Nagios daemon.  A test run on a different system worked fine, so now I
just need to find out why.  I suspect that there may be some libraries or
utilities present on one that are missing on the other.

Does anyone know why when a plugin aborts, Nessus treats this as a
success?

  -- Steve