Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 2024 Release Notes

These release notes are listed in reverse chronological order.

Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.4.0 - 2024-04-29

Note: This release includes a fix for a potential vulnerability. For more information, see the Tenable Product Security Advisory.

The following are changed functionality and performance enhancements included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.4.0:

  • Tenable Nessus Network Monitor on Windows now uses Npcap 1.72 instead of WinPcap.

For more information about the features and functionality supported in this release, see theTenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.4.x User Guide and the Tenable Nessus Network Monitor Deployment Guide.

The following are security updates included in Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.4.0:

  • Support for OpenSSL 3.0.13

  • Support for libxslt 1.1.39

  • Support for xmlsec 1.3.2

  • Support for zlib 1.3.1

  • Support for libxml2 2.12.5

  • Support for Hyperscan 5.4.2

  • Support for curl 8.6.0

  • Support for expat 2.6.0

  • Support for c-ares 1.28.0

Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.4.0 includes the following bug fix:

  • Tenable Nessus Network Monitor enables processing ERSPAN Type II traffic by default.

    Tip: If you have ERSPAN Type II traffic in your feed and you upgrade to Tenable Nessus Network Monitor 6.4.0, Tenable recommends you remove all previous results and allow Tenable Nessus Network Monitor to rebuild its database.

Support is available for the following platforms:

  • Red Hat Linux ES 7 / CentOS 7 (RH 7.0 through 7.9) 64-bit

  • Red Hat Linux ES 8 / CentOS 8 (RH 8.0 through 8.7) 64-bit

  • Red Hat Linux ES 9 (9.0 through 9.3) 64-bit

    Note: For all versions of Red Hat Linux ES and CentOS, Tenable Nessus Network Monitor requires that you have systemd and firewalld on your system.

  • Microsoft Windows 10, Server 2012, Server 2016, and Server 2019 (all 64-bit)

    Note: Tenable Nessus Network Monitor requires Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019. You must download the specific package vc_redist.x64.exe from the Microsoft downloads site.