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Passive Vulnerability Scanner 5.3 Release Notes

This document describes the new features and improvements that are introduced in PVS 5.3.

Upgrade Notes • Upgrades from 4.2.1, 4.4.1, 5.0.0, and 5.2.0 to 5.3.0 are supported. Installations running previous versions of PVS

4.2.1 must upgrade to at least 4.2.1 prior to upgrading to PVS 5.3. Refer to the PVS 5.3 User Guide for details on

upgrading to PVS 5.3.

• PVS 5.3 is compatible with SecurityCenter 4.7.x and later.

• The HTML5 User Interface is automatically updated to version 1.8.0 via a plugin update.

Supported Platforms

Support is available for the following platforms:

• Red Hat Linux ES 5 / CentOS 5 64-bit

• Red Hat Linux ES 6 / CentOS 6 64-bit

• Red Hat Linux ES 7 / CentOS 7 64-bit

• macOS 10.9 - 10.12 64-bit

• Microsoft Windows Vista, 7, 8, Server 2008, and Server 2012 64-bit

File Names & Checksums

File MD5 SHA1

pvs-5.3.0-

es5.x86_64.rpm

021e5ec78f401abe6ad1711c8667d3dd 7a6e76ef4d791ab5bce20afbe9841aa7860e7ea3

pvs-5.3.0-

es6.x86_64.rpm

9fe9f466a9e13c2b25c0353ce3406c48 6eaa7269b63a7acbb798c0c48da06e3ac73e1269

pvs-5.3.0-

es7.x86_64.rpm

878a85883566473e882e60ccb6a87092 7220bdc2c7ee2014044a290a4c6806e43221366e

pvs-5.3.0-osx.dmg 9a54b3a719cd7e7f826ca7d92f7fdc6b 9a9d05288acbbe0e7aa6543f71566e4437ddd75b

pvs-5.3.0-x64.exe 9b031a392579fc3f7371aa744a86103f c1043ed744ed705e4a82baa5acc6fe47f4cf3c8f

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What’s New Improved User Experience with Network Configuration

User experience and the ease-of-use of our products is very important to us. Through user feedback of the PVS experience in

SecurityCenter, we found that many users would inadvertently use PVS’s default network configuration which could exhaust

the user’s product license. PVS is now more intelligent to how it suggests default network ranges, which directly addresses

the license exhaustion issue. Furthermore, the PVS configuration interface now offers a friendly warning to users who

change the network monitoring range to PVS instances managed by SecurityCenter.

Increased Detections in the SCADA/ICS Module

PVS continues to increase detection for ICS/SCADA protocols and devices. PVS can see configuration, status, and health

checks based on Modbus network traffic. Furthermore, SCADA device identification was improved through detection of

Ethernet/IP network traffic. Through DNP3 network traffic, visibility into configuration activity was added. And lastly, our

library of detections has increased its coverage to Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley ControlLogix Controller and Module.

Enhanced OS Detection A key feature to PVS is the added visibility it gives users into their network. This involves both discovery and identification.

PVS 5.3 has greatly improved the quality and performance of operating system detection. This will help give PVS users

greater detail into the distribution of different operating systems, and their versions, on the network.

Visibility into VXLANs Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that addresses scalability problems in large cloud

computing deployments. By direct request from our customers, we’ve added added visibility into VXLAN traffic to the list of

PVS capabilities. This continues the theme of PVS empowering customers to gain visibility to all parts of their network, no

matter what technology is being used.

Improved PVS 10G performance The performance of PVS in high performance mode has been improved to be able to process traffic on 10Gbps networks.

Additional Improvements The OpenSSL version has been updated to 1.0.2k.

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