Based on pr pkg/19438 by Adrian Portelli.
Changes since 1.2.6:
. changes by Renaud Deraison (deraison@cvs.nessus.org)
- The 'cancel' button of several file selection dialogs is now working
- Optimized several plugins :
- Web-related checks now use http_recv() instead of recv()
- open_priv_sock_tcp() has a lower timeout
- RPC related checks now use get_rpc_port(), a function equivalent
to libc's getrpcport() but with a much smaller timeout
- Decreased the default value of checks_read_timeout from 15 to 5
- Fixed a bug in the plugin selection GUI which would not refresh
the list of plugins of a given family properly (bug#3)
- Fixed memory leaks in NASL
- Fixed a bug in nessusd which would make it leak memory when receiving a SIGHUP
(bug#10)
- Fixed a compatibility problem with Nmap 3.10ALPHA (bug#11)
- Nessus now accepts nmap's U: and T: notation for the port range (bug#5)
. changes by Erik Anderson (eanders@pobox.com)
- Added CVE and BID links, added urls and removed dead links from the plugins
. changes by Michel Scheidell (scheidell@secnap.net)
- Improved several SMB-related checks
. changes by Rodolfo Baader (rbaader@activesec.biz)
- Quotes and apostrophes are properly escaped in the XML output report
