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From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
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Subject: Nessus on 6.2
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Hi,

I am using nessus from the ports on FreeBSD 6.2.

The daemon seems to be runing fine, but the cient core dumps.

sysl<root>103: pkg_info |grep nessus
nessus-gtk-2.2.9_1  A security scanner: looks for vulnerabilities in a given ne
nessus-libnasl-2.2.9_1 Nessus Attack Scripting Language
nessus-libraries-2.2.9_1 Libraries for Nessus, the security scanner
nessus-plugins-2.2.9_1 Plugins for Nessus, the security scanner
sysl<root>104: uname -a
FreeBSD sysl.cs.ait.ac.th 6.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Jun 27 13:06:13 ICT 2007     root@sysl.cs.ait.ac.th:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
sysl<root>105: gdb /usr/local/bin/nessus
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
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welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
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This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found).
..
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/nessus 

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x285e33b0 in .cerror () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0x285e33b0 in .cerror () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x00000004 in ?? ()
#2  0x402c7413 in ?? ()
#3  0xbfbfe380 in ?? ()
#4  0xbfbfe380 in ?? ()
#5  0x00000212 in ?? ()
#6  0x285f1d80 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7  0xbfbfe3b8 in ?? ()
#8  0x285e2213 in isatty () from /lib/libc.so.6
Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb) 

Any idea what the problem could be?

best regards,

Olivier