• Network Security
  • Opensource
  • OpenVAS – Open Source Vulnerability Scanner

    The world’s most advanced Open Source vulnerability scanner
    OpenVAS is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.
    The Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.
    The actual security scanner is accompanied with a daily updated feed of Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs), over 20,000 in total (as of January 2011).
    All OpenVAS products are Free Software. Most components are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL).

    Download Here: OPENVAS
    OpenVAS for Ubuntu
    you can install OpenVAS for Ubuntu via OBS

    Step 1: Configure OBS Repository

    sudo apt-get -y install python-software-properties
    sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/
    security:/OpenVAS:/STABLE:/v4/xUbuntu_10.04/ ./"
    sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys BED1E87979EAFD54
    sudo apt-get update

     
    Step 2: Quick-Install OpenVAS

    sudo apt-get -y install greenbone-security-assistant gsd openvas-cli openvas-manager
    openvas-scanner openvas-administrator sqlite3 xsltproc


    Step 3: Quick-Start OpenVAS

    (copy and paste whole block, during first time you will be asked to set a password for user “admin”)

    test -e /var/lib/openvas/CA/cacert.pem  || sudo openvas-mkcert -q
    sudo openvas-nvt-sync
    test -e /var/lib/openvas/users/om || sudo openvas-mkcert-client -n om -i
    sudo /etc/init.d/openvas-manager stop
    sudo /etc/init.d/openvas-scanner stop
    sudo openvassd
    sudo openvasmd --migrate
    sudo openvasmd --rebuild
    sudo killall openvassd
    sleep 15
    sudo /etc/init.d/openvas-scanner start
    sudo /etc/init.d/openvas-manager start
    sudo /etc/init.d/openvas-administrator restart
    sudo /etc/init.d/greenbone-security-assistant restart
    test -e /var/lib/openvas/users/admin || sudo openvasad -c add_user -n admin -r Admin

    Step 4: Log into OpenVAS as “admin”

    Open https://localhost:9392/ or start "gsd" on a command line as a regular user (not as root!).

    Visit the official site here: http://www.openvas.org/

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