Damaged Pdf reports

[sourabhdeshmukh]

Hello Everyone

Config : Centos 7.
Openvas 8
gvm-cli 2.0.0.beta1. API version 1.0.0.beta2.

Openvas is successfull running. When reports are generated and when we download report in xml format. It gets downloaded successfully.

The problem is when we select pdf format it generates pdf version of report and gets downloaded. When we open pdf it prompts Pdf is either damaged or it is not supported file.
Please help.

Awaiting response
Thank You

[bricks]

Hi,

when choosing the category for a topic please try to have a look at the category description for each category first:

The current used category is/was https://community.greenbone.net/c/gce (Description: About the Greenbone Community Edition (GCE) VM) which is about the Greenbone Community Edition virtual machine provided by Greenbone directly. You are using packages for CentOS which aren’t provided by Greenbone therefore you are talking about the Greenbone Source Edition.

First of all you are using an old and unsupported version of OpenVAS/GVM. Current stable is GVM 10.

GVM-10 (stable, initial release 2019-04-05)

Greenbone Vulnerability Management version 10 (GVM-10) is the current stable major release. GVM is developed for and as part of the commercial product line Greenbone Security Manager. It is developed by Greenbone and licenced as Open Source. GVM is published as regularly update and tested source code releases. It is also available as latest source code repository state, which is not fully tested and may show unexpected behavior. Supported Greenbone Management Protocol (GMP) version: 8.0 Supp…

GVM-9 (old stable, initial release 2017-03-07)

Greenbone Vulnerability Management version 9 (GVM-9) is the old stable major release. GVM is developed for and as part of the commercial product line Greenbone Security Manager. It is developed by Greenbone and licenced as Open Source. GVM is published as regularly update and tested source code releases. This is the recommended publication. It is also available as latest source code repository state, but which is not fully tested and may show unexpected behavior. Supported Greenbone Manageme…

gvm-tools does not support this version of OpenVAS too despite it may work for many GMP commands. Additionally you should search in this forum for PDF creating issues and howto setup your distribution for this purpose. There have been several topics about this problem.

[cfi]

Just for the record a few threads which might be related to the initial asked problem about PDFs being damaged / corrupted:

Corrupted PDF report

Hello, This is my first post here With OpenVAS 10, I get a corrupted PDF when I export reports (PDF or latex). I’ve exported the report in XML (not the xml anonymous, the full) and run manually xsltproc command : xsltproc ./latex.xsl test.xml > test.latex Then pdflatex command : pdflatex test.latex … ! Misplaced \noalign. \rowcolor ->\noalign {\ifnum 0=`}\fi \global \let \CT@do@color \CT@@do@color… l.1357 \rowcolor {white}{\verb=arachni (NASL wrapper)=}\ In test.lat…

All reports are empty

Hi everyone, I just installed OpenVAS 9 on Ubuntu 16.04. Scans reveal vulnerabilities. However, when I download scan reports, they are empty – literally 0 KB. This happens for every kind of report: PDF, text, Latex, etc. All completely empty files. What do I do? Thanks!

Unable to download PDF report

Hi Team, I am new to openvas and Greenbone security assistant, I have installed openvas in rhel 7. I am able to add the target and scan it, also i am able to see the results in CSV format but unable to see the results in PDF. PDF file is empty . So kindly help me how to resovle it. I need the reports in PDF format.

[sourabhdeshmukh]

Thank you for the threads @cfi I will go through them.

Which is the official way to install openvas.
At present I have installed it using atomiccorp script.

[Lukas]

Use a GCE oder buy a Greenbone Appliance

[bricks]

Which is the official way to install openvas.

There is no official way to install OpenVAS/GVM. We are not giving advises about which distribution or packages to use. Greenbone develops GVM as free software and sells virtual or physical appliances. Distributions are talking our source edition and create packages from it. Besides that we are providing a virtual machine derived from our products with reduced feature set for soho environments named Greenbone Community Edition (GCE).