OpenVAS is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.

You can find all source packages for OpenVAS here.

first im gonna prepare system for openVAS;

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake bison flex libpcap-dev pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libgpgme11-dev uuid-dev \
sqlfairy xmltoman doxygen libssh-dev libksba-dev libldap2-dev \
libsqlite3-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev \
xsltproc clang rsync rpm nsis alien sqlite3 libhiredis-dev libgcrypt11-dev libgnutls28-dev redis-server texlive-latex-base


edited upon Thomas Frederiksen‘s suggestion

download sources;

wget http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/2067/openvas-libraries-8.0.3.tar.gz
wget http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/2071/openvas-scanner-5.0.3.tar.gz
wget http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/2075/openvas-manager-6.0.3.tar.gz
wget http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/2079/greenbone-security-assistant-6.0.3.tar.gz
wget http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/1987/openvas-cli-1.4.0.tar.gz

open packages;

tar xvf greenbone-security-assistant-6.0.3.tar.gz
tar xvf openvas-libraries-8.0.3.tar.gz
tar xvf openvas-scanner-5.0.3.tar.gz
tar xvf openvas-manager-6.0.3.tar.gz
tar xvf openvas-cli-1.4.0.tar.gz

compile sources;


cd openvas-libraries-8.0.3
cmake .
make
make doc
sudo make install
cd ..

cd greenbone-security-assistant-6.0.3/
cmake .
make
make doc
sudo make install

configuration step;

sudo ldconfig

cd ~ && wget --no-check-certificate https://svn.wald.intevation.org/svn/openvas/trunk/tools/openvas-check-setup &&
chmod +x openvas-check-setup && sudo ./openvas-check-setup --v8

# Create openvas certificates:

sudo openvas-mkcert# NVT feed:
sudo openvas-nvt-sync#SCAP feed:
sudo openvas-scapdata-sync#CERT feed:
sudo openvas-certdata-sync# Generate client certificates:
sudo openvas-mkcert-client -n -i

# Signature checking of NVTs:

sudo apt-get install gnupg
wget http://www.openvas.org/OpenVAS_TI.asc
sudo gpg --homedir=/usr/local/etc/openvas/gnupg --gen-key
sudo gpg --homedir=/usr/local/etc/openvas/gnupg --import OpenVAS_TI.asc
sudo gpg --homedir=/usr/local/etc/openvas/gnupg --lsign-key 48DB4530


to help generate a lot of random bytes on another shell:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/500m.tmp bs=500M count=5

or install haveged deamon:

sudo apt-get install haveged

# enable sign check:

echo "nasl_no_signature_check = no" >> /usr/local/etc/openvas/openvassd.conf

#Update portnames:

wget http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xml
openvas-portnames-update service-names-port-numbers.xml
rm service-names-port-numbers.xml

# Create admin password:

sudo openvasmd --create-user=adminuser --role=Admin

write down the password

# Set passwd policy
sudo vim /usr/local/etc/openvas/pwpolicy.conf

# install nmap 5.51:

wget http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.51.6.tgz &&
tar xvf nmap-5.51.6.tgz &&
cd nmap-5.51.6 &&
./configure &&
make &&
make install

# Start OpenVAS Scanner
sudo openvassd

# Initialize the Database
sudo openvasmd --rebuild --progress

# Launch OpenVAS Scanner as root
openvassd

# Launch OpenVAS Manager daemon
openvasmd

# Launch OpenVAS Greenbone Security Assistant

gsad

configure redis-server with

http://download.redis.io/redis-stable/redis.conf
changes in redis.conf

unixsocket /tmp/redis.sock
unixsocketperm 777
dir /var/dump # create and chmod with root

comment and close below;

#repl-diskless-sync no
#repl-diskless-sync-delay 5
# repl-ping-slave-period 10

connect to website with “adminuser” and the password you wrote down:

https://localhost