Re: Scan terminates after just one subnet (Nessus 2.2.4) BUG!

[Renaud Deraison <deraison_at_nessus.org>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:38:44AM -0400, Alex Campoe wrote:
> So, is there a limit on the number of characters/hosts you can pass to 
> nessus? 

2Gb.

> This would be an issue for scans in general, not only involving 
> NessusWX.

It only affects NessusWX. The issue is that NessusWX :

 a) Pre-computes the list of IPs to scan (it should send a range and
    let nessusd compute what to scan)

 b) Misuses the communication protocol and uses the 'short' scan-start
    message instead of the long version.




				-- Renaud