{"id":876,"date":"2014-06-15T14:30:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T12:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/?p=876"},"modified":"2014-06-15T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T12:35:33","slug":"openvas-broken-debian-installer-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"OpenVAS – Broken Debian Installer Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I have read an article in a computer magazine on the vulnerability scanner OpenVAS<\/a>. It sounded interesting and that was why I wanted to try it out. OpenVAS provides a live virtual appliance container file<\/a> for demo purposes. Trying to install it into a VMWare Player, I was not able to get it running. As it appeared to be related to an incompatible library on the image, I decided to install a new Debian 7.5 Wheezy<\/a> image as VM. All the steps necessary for install and setup can be found on the OpenVAS website<\/a>.
\nOne of the crucial steps in between is to run<\/p>\n

\r\nopenvas-certdata-sync\r\n<\/pre>\n
which updates the cert database. Without it, you won’t be able to start the openvas-scanner<\/code> service. It would fail with the error message<\/p>\n
\r\nsql_x: sqlite3_prepare failed: no such table: main.meta\r\n<\/pre>\n
in the log file \/var\/log\/openvas\/openvasmd.log<\/code>. However, when running openvas-certdata-sync<\/code>, you will get another block of error messages, reading<\/p>\n
\r\n\/usr\/sbin\/openvas-certdata-sync: 185: \/usr\/sbin\/openvas-certdata-sync: cannot open \/usr\/share\/openvas\/cert\/cert_db_init.sql: No such file\r\nError: no such table: dfn_cert_advs\r\nError: no such table: meta\r\nError: Inconsistent data. Resetting CERT database.\r\n<\/pre>\n
This problem has already been addressed by the Novell Bugzilla<\/a> since August, 2013, but has not been fixed yet. Futhermore, there are many other reports of this issue in several forums and mailing lists. <\/p>\n
The root cause of this matter is that the Debian software package openvas-manager<\/code> is missing the files in \/usr\/share\/openvas\/cert\/<\/code>. These files, however, are available in the VM container file<\/a>. Unfortunately, extracting and copying them over to your installation may be a bit tricky; that is why I have bundled them for you in a file attached to this blog. You may download the file and extract it via<\/p>\n
\r\ncd \/usr\/share\/openvas\r\nmkdir cert\r\ncd cert\r\nwget http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/?dl_id=5\r\ntar xzvf openvas-cert.tar.gz\r\nrm openvas-cert.tar.gz\r\n<\/pre>\n
onto you local machine. 
\"\"  OpenVAS metadata files for cert directory<\/a><\/strong> (2.0 KiB, 2,685 hits)<\/p> Afterwards, you need to run<\/p>\n
\r\nopenvas-certdata-sync\r\n<\/pre>\n
again.<\/p>\n
It’s a shame that a bug report has been open for more than 10 months now, causing that no Debian distribution will run out of the box anymore, and has not been – even – addressed yet.
\nIf that is representative for the reliability of a security product, should you really run it in your network?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Due to a bug in the debian package of OpenVAS 6, the files in \/usr\/share\/openvas\/cert\/ are missing (“no such file”). It is being explained how to fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}