What's new in Security System Analyzer 1.6 Beta 2
Jul 3, 2008
- Updated OVAL Security Check Plugin to support OVAL 5.4 schema
- Proxy support of NTLM authentication
- Reported Bugs fixed
- Draft documentation delayed (sorry guys, we�ve urged to release beta 2 to fix errors generated with OVAL 5.3 schema)
New in Security System Analyzer 1.5.2 (Aug 10, 2007)
- Based on OVAL 5.3 build 20 (new features see oval.mitre.org for more information)
- SSA now supports SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) (see http://nvd.nist.gov/scap.cfm)
- The XML SCAP files are extracted using our new SCAP Parser (SCAP_Patch_Extractor)
- Added Windows XP Patches definition file
- Added Windows Vista Patches definition file
- Added Windows 2000 Patches definition file
- Added Office 2007 Patches definition file
- Added Internet explorer 7 patches definition file
- SSA now supports scan for missed patches (using SCAP format)
- Updated OVAL XML Viewer Plugin: Now supports CVE search (ex: CVE-2007-* will return all CVEs in 2007 used along with OVALids), Bugs fixed
New in Security System Analyzer 1.5.1 (Mar 13, 2007)
- Based on OVAL 5.2 build 11 (bugs fixed)
- Corrected bug in EntityComparator::ParseVersionStr().
- Added error checking to the function to enusre that the input version strings are in a valid format.
- Removed VC7 project from source distributions.
- Now SSA relies on CPE (common Platform Enumeration) names to display inventories.
- SSA supports VISTA definitions.
- Added Menu Help
- PDF documentation : link to SSA PDF doc.
- OVAL Concept documentation : link to OVAL FAQS.
- CPE Concept documentation : link to CPE docs.
- [NEw Security-Database Feature]: Submit a bug about SSA
- Security-Database Vulnerability Search : Search information into our cross linked Vulnerability database
- Fixed bugs into scan() function
- Handle exception: Error while parsed corrupted XML File (thanks to Drew Buttner from OVAL project)
- Handle exception: Error while using unsupported schema
- Fixed a latency in function "stop/reload"
- Fixed the PATH bug. Now SSA can be installed in any directory
New in Security System Analyzer 1.5 (Feb 16, 2007)
- NOW fully based on OVAL 5.2 Interpreter.
- Added OVAL XML Database Plug-in.
- View OVAL ID Information
- Search by OS and OVAL ID
- Double click on entry and get more information (linked to OVAL.mitre.org and security-database.com)
- More information about CVE (CVSS, Related sources, Related missed patches....)
- NOW SSA Security System Analyzer in added to OVAL.mitre.org compatibility program
- Added function Stop/Reload in SSA
- Improved performance in SSA Core Scanner
- Fixed bugs (function checks, abnormal scan abort...)
- Fixed bugs in Updater Plug-in
- Added second progress bar in Updater Plug-in to indicate the stages left to be processed.