Hi,

On 10.05.2018 16:24, Stelios Barberakis wrote:
> Thank you for your help. I managed to resolve the issue back then,
> cloning and modifying the scan config template.
> Unfortunately after Monday update, I haven't been able to reproduce the
> "printer detection" situation (default scan configs obviously). The
> issue seems to have been resolved for me.

mhhh thats quite strange but the mis-identification could be caused by
the following:

> I am probably *getting off topic* here, but in case this helps in some way:
> 
> Since then, the issue is that the scans take ages to complete(~20 hours
> for default: full and very deep), while sometimes it remains at 1%
> forever. High cpu usage (over 70% for every core during the scan ~ when
> it passes over 1%).
> 
> I was thinking that I may be getting blocked by host provider's firewall
> and I tried with:
> /Maximum concurrently executed NVTs per host: 1
> Maximum concurrently scanned hosts: 1
> /which didn't change anything, as far as I can tell.
> 
> My server is a debian Managed VPS at a2hosting.
> 
> I set log_whole_attack=yes,  but it didn't give me any usefull info,
> besides what I am attaching.

this sounds to me like outdated components of the OpenVAS framework. The
current releases of the OpenVAS 9 components available at:

http://www.openvas.org/install-source.html

have a fix included for exactly such an issue you're describing.

Regards,

> On 7 May 2018 at 17:17, Christian Fischer
> <christian.fisc...@greenbone.net
> <mailto:christian.fisc...@greenbone.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     did you had a chance to re-scan your server with the updated feed to see
>     the extended output?
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     On 30.04.2018 15:33, Stelios Barberakis wrote:
>     > thanks Christian
>     >
>     > On 28 April 2018 at 16:04, Christian Fischer <
>     > christian.fisc...@greenbone.net
>     <mailto:christian.fisc...@greenbone.net>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> Hi,
>     >>
>     >> On 28.04.2018 01:30, Stelios Barberakis wrote:
>     >>> I apologise if this is a double post, but I think the previous
>     one was
>     >>> not delivered.
>     >>
>     >> you can check the delivering status on your own if you browse the
>     >> mailing list archives available at:
>     >>
>     >> http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-discuss/
>     <http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-discuss/>
>     >>
>     >> where you can see that your previous mail was delivered as well:
>     >>
>     >> http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-discuss/
>     <http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-discuss/>
>     >> 2018-April/012012.html
>     >>
>     >>> Using the web UI, I can see the settings, including 'Exclude
>     printers
>     >>> from scan' (screenshot attached in the link).
>     >>>
>     >>> but I can't find out *how to change it*. The configuration files
>     doesn't
>     >>> include any such option:
>     >>
>     >> The openvassd.conf is the wrong place you're looking at. You
>     would need
>     >> to clone the "Full and Fast" scan configuration to be able to change
>     >> this setting.
>     >>
>     >> But instead of changing the scan configuration i'm quite
>     interested in
>     >> why your server is detected as a printer. Starting with the next feed
>     >> update (around Monday next week) the following NVTs will print
>     out the
>     >> reason why your system was detected as a printer:
>     >>
>     >> Do not scan printers
>     >> OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.11933
>     >>
>     >> Do not print on AppSocket and socketAPI printers
>     >> OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.12241
>     >>
>     >> It would be great if you could share the output of the NVTs either
>     >> privately or here at the mailing list.
>     >>
>     >> Thanks,
_______________________________________________
Openvas-discuss mailing list
Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org
https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss

Reply via email to