Enhanced Product Detection Support for AIX and Solaris

Change

The Nessus detection library for handling command-line utilities such as ‘grep’, ‘strings’,’ which’, and ‘locate’ is being updated to allow for better support on hosts running AIX or Solaris.

Due to the differences between the implementations of these utilities between platforms, parameters are sometimes different. This update accommodates the main differences between the utilities.

Impact

Customers should expect improved detection of products on AIX and Solaris hosts, potentially resulting in a significant increase in new vulnerability detections. This improvement may also result in slightly longer scan times and increased CPU utilization on the systems scanned.

Linux hosts should be unaffected by these changes.

Target Release Date

4 February 2021

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