Greenbone Vulnerability Manager v21.4.0

Added

• Extend GMP for extended severities #1326 #1329 #1359 #1371 #1477 #1488
• Parameter --db-user to set a database user #1327
• Add allow_simultaneous_ips field for targets #1346 #1396
• Speed up GET_VULNS #1354 #1355
• Speed up result counting iterator #1358 #1361
• Speed up result iterator #1370 #1361
• Improve GMP docs around users #1363
• Cache report counts when Dynamic Severity is enabled #1389
• Detection entry detection while importing reports #1405

Changed

• Move EXE credential generation to a Python script #1260 #1262
• Clarify documentation for --scan-host parameter #1277
• In result iterator access severity directly if possible #1321
• Change SCAP and CERT data to use "severity" consistently #1333 #1357 #1365 #1457 #1476
• Expect report format scripts to exit with code 0 #1383
• Send entire families to ospd-openvas using VT_GROUP #1384
• Limit "whole-only" config families to "growing" and "every nvt" #1386
• Access current user with an SQL function #1399
• Refactor modify_config, allowing multiple simultaneous changes #1404
• Add retry on a deadlock within sql#sql #1460
• Don't require report format plugin for XML report #1466
• Wording of Rebuilding NVTs because integrity check failed 1475

Fixed

• Use GMP version with leading zero for feed dirs #1287
• Check db version before creating SQL functions #1304
• Fix severity_in_level SQL function #1312
• Fix and simplify SecInfo migration #1331
• Prevent CPE/NVD_ID from being "(null)" #1369
• Check DB versions before CERT severity updates #1376
• Add owner checks to report_count queries #1397

Removed

• Remove solution element from VT tags #886
• Drop GMP scanners #1269
• Reduce Severity Classes #1285
• Removed Severity Classes #1288
• Remove remaining use of "Severity Class" in where_levels_auto #1311
• Remove the functionality "autofp" (Auto False Positives) #1300
• Remove severity type "debug" #1316
• Remove element "threat" of element "notes" #1324