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OpenVAS 9.0.0 for Gentoo/Linux

This is not official Gentoo/Linux OpenVAS package.

You can find official Gentoo/Linux OpenVAS package: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-analyzer/openvas

Versions

openvas                      9.0.0 (stable, latest)

openvas-libraries            9.0.3 (stable, latest)
openvas-scanner              5.1.3 (stable, latest)
openvas-manager              7.0.3 (stable, latest)
greenbone-security-assistant 7.0.3 (stable, latest)
gvm-tools                    1.4.1 (stable, latest)
ospd                         1.3.2 (stable, latest)

What is OpenVAS

OpenVAS is a full-featured vulnerability scanner. Its capabilities include unauthenticated testing, authenticated testing, various high level and low level Internet and industrial protocols, performance tuning for large-scale scans and a powerful internal programming language to implement any type of vulnerability test.

OpenVAS Community Edition --> https://github.com/greenbone
OpenVAS HomePage          --> http://www.openvas.org/
Greenbone HomePage        --> https://www.greenbone.net/en/

Usage

via local overlays

Copy "openvas-overlay.conf" from this repository into /etc/portage/repos.conf/ to use the portage sync capabilities. Alternatively you can create a /etc/portage/repos.conf/openvas-overlay.conf file containing:

[openvas-overlay]
location = /usr/local/portage/openvas-overlay
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/hsntgm/openvas-9-gentoo-overlay.git
priority = 9999

Then run:

sync repo       --> emerge --sync or eix-sync or emaint -a sync
install package --> emerge --ask net-analyzer/openvas

via layman

layman -o https://raw.github.com/hsntgm/openvas-9-gentoo-overlay/master/repositories.xml -f -a openvas-overlay

Then run:

layman -s openvas-overlay

Use Flags

 IUSE="extras cli gsa ospd ldap radius"
  • extras --> Required for docs, pdf results and fonts | Recommended
  • cli --> Command Line Interfaces for OpenVAS-Scanner
  • gsa --> Greenbone Security Agent (WebUI)
  • ospd --> Scanner wrappers which share the same communication protocol
  • ldap --> LDAP Support for Openvas-Libraries
  • radius --> Radius Support for OpenVAS-Libraries

Scripts

Inspect the scripts. You never blindly run scripts you
downloaded from the Internet, do you?

https://github.com/hsntgm/openvas-9-scripts