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ANNOUNCE: Rscan 1.4.0 and IRIX-security, NetSecurity Modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nate Sammons)
Mon Apr 3 16:09:53 1995
From: nate@VIS.ColoState.EDU (Nate Sammons)
To: bugtraq@fc.net
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:20:28 -0600 (MDT)
ANNOUNCING RSCAN 1.4.0 and various modules
Rscan 1.4.0 (formerly ``Securscan'') is officially available.
It has gone through a _lot_ of changes, far too many to
mention in this article.
In short, Rscan is a facility that allows System Administrators to
execute complex (or simple) scanner scripts on one (or many)
machines and create clean, formatted reports in either ASCII or
HTML. There's really too much information to convey in a short
posting, so please take a look at the homepage.
Rscan allows the writing of modules that have different scans for
different operating systems, etc. See the user's guide for more
information.
For more information on Rscan, please see:
http://www.vis.colostate.edu/rscan
A users guide is provided there in PostScript and HTML, and sample
reports in both ASCII and HTML are also provided.
Two modules are currently available. They are:
IRIX-security
This is what ``Securscan'' used to be. It scans for all published
security holes in IRIX 4.0.5, 5.2, 5.3 and 6.0.1. It is available
from ftp.vis.colostate.edu in /pub/rscan as the file
ftp://ftp.vis.colostate.edu/pub/rscan/IRIX-security.tar.gz
which is always a link to the current version. This module
was written by the author of Rscan. If there are any holes that
the IRIX-security module doesn't check, please mail it to
Nate Sammons <nate@vis.colostate.edu>
NetSecurity
This module checks for many network related security holes, and is
aimed at preventing SATANic assaults on a network. It is written
by Paul Danckaert <pauld@umbc.edu> It's home page is
http://www.umbc.edu/rscan
and it can be ftp'd from
ftp://ftp.umbc.edu/pub/unix/security/rscan/NetSecurity.tar.gz
If you have any suggestions for things that the NetSecurity module
should scan for that it does not, please mail Paul about it.
There is a copy of Rscan that has both of these modules preinstalled,
Ready To Go (rtg) on it, which is available as
ftp://ftp.vis.colostate.edu/pub/rscan/rscan.rtg.tar.gz
-nate sammons
--
Nate Sammons nate@vis.colostate.edu
System Administrator http://www.vis.colostate.edu/info/staff/nate
CSU Computer Visualization Lab "The torch of chaos and doubt --
this is what the sage steers by." -Chuang Tzu
