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Apache Log4j Detection Optimizations Summary: While the...
Apache Log4j Detection Optimizations Summary: While the operating system ultimately controls scheduling and resource allocation, we have made additional optimizations to the Apache Log4j JAR Detec...
The changes below have been released in Nessus plugin feed 202201200227.
The plugin has been updated to no longer use the 'dir' and 'findstr' anymore since this can potentially use more resources and using Powershell for the file system scan, while potentially slower, uses less resources. Also, the plugin has been updated to slow down the Java archive inspection in Powershell before explicitly closing the handle. This should assist with the garbage collection and result in considerably less resource usage.
The resource consumption mentioned in the release highlight was the focus of the changes. More details were added to the original post and the comment above.
