Topic: [NORMAL] issues opening new connections with OpenVAS GUI client.
Bug Severity: NORMAL
Shadowcircle release number: 1.0 RC1
Symptoms: When trying to connect to an openvasd session, the OpenVAS client GUI may freeze while trying to load the plugins.
Reproductibility: OFTEN
initial conditions: sytem running with X.
Reproduction Procedure: On the desktop, go to tools=>OpenVAS Vulns Scanner then run
OpenVAS Quickstart. Go again to tools=>OpenVAS Vulns Scanner and run OpenVAS Service start.
Go again to tools=>OpenVAS Vulns Scanner and run OpenVAS CLient (GUI). Once in the openVAS client,
try to make a connection to the local damon.
Additional Debug Informations: None
Workarround description: restart the openvasd daemon with /etc/init.d/openvas restart. Then retry to connect with the OpenVAS client. If it still fails, try to regenerate the certificate and login informations by running in tools=>OpenVAS Vulns Scanner=>OpenVAS Quickstart, restart the daemon and retry to connect. If the issue remains, check the /usr/local/var/log/openvas/openvas.dump file for faulty plugins and remove them from /usr/local/lib/openvas-plugins. In final resort try to perform an update of the openvas plugins , by running shadow-update.

Shadowcircle 1.0 RC1
md5 hash: 771181779ad13cb7650623ed8f42e022
file size: 675MB
login: toor/toor