Typical use cases for Lynis:
- Security auditing
- Vulnerability scanning
- System hardening
Changelog:
New:
– Boot loader detection for AIX [BOOT-5102]
– Detection of getcap and lsvg binary
– Added filesystem_ext to report
– Detect rootsh
Changes:
– Hide errors when RPM database is faulty and show suggestion instead [PKGS-7308]
– Allow OpenBSD to gather information on listening network ports [NETW-3012]
– Don’t trigger warning for Shellshock when doing segfault test [SHLL-6290]
– Do not run Apache test on OpenBSD and strip control chars [HTTP-6624]
– Extended AIDE test with configuration validation test [FIND-4314]
– Improved Shellshock test regarding non-Linux support [SHLL-6290]
– Added support for gathering volume groups on AIX [FILE-6311]
– Properly parse PAM lines and add them to report [AUTH-9264]
– Support for boot loader detection on OpenBSD [BOOT-5159]
– Added uptime detection for OpenBSD systems [BOOT-5202]
– Support for volume groups on AIX [FILE-6312]
– Redirect errors when searching for readlink binary