Nessus client bug?

Greg Kuhnert gregk at no1.com.au
Wed Nov 10 19:19:05 EST 2004


I have been playing with the nessus client, looking at the output from 
the following command:

nessus -qxP localhost 1241 user password

I notice that some of the data returned appears to be duplicated. Eg: If 
I pipe the output through sort, the top of the output looks like:

Brute force login (Hydra)[checkbox]:Brute force cisco-enable = no
Brute force login (Hydra)[checkbox]:Brute force cisco-enable = no
Brute force login (Hydra)[checkbox]:Brute force cisco = no
Brute force login (Hydra)[checkbox]:Brute force cisco = no
Brute force login (Hydra)[checkbox]:Brute force FTP = no
Brute force login (Hydra)[checkbox]:Brute force FTP = no

Is this intentional, or possibly due to a misconfiguration on my server?

My client version is
nessus (Nessus) 2.2.0 for Linux

(C) 1998 - 2003 Renaud Deraison <deraison at nessus.org>
        SSL used for client - server communication


Greg Kuhnert



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