Hi cfi. I have installed Kali Linux 2021.1 with GVM 21.4.0 via repositories and guess what…I get the same error after run the scan
Jun 22 11:35:34 gvm ospd-openvas[2896]: (process:2896): GLib-WARNING (recursed) **: Invalid UTF-8 passed to g_io_channel_write_chars().
After I downloaded all the feeds and configured de import owner, I did the next few steps:
1-Enter the GSA
https://10.7.2.37:9392/
2-Configure the timezone
3-Create the target
4-Create the scan task pointing to the target
5-Run the scan
gvm-check-setup 21.4.0
Test completeness and readiness of GVM-21.4.0
Step 1: Checking OpenVAS (Scanner)...
OK: OpenVAS Scanner is present in version 21.4.0.
OK: Server CA Certificate is present as /var/lib/gvm/CA/servercert.pem.
Checking permissions of /var/lib/openvas/gnupg/*
OK: _gvm owns all files in /var/lib/openvas/gnupg
OK: redis-server is present.
OK: scanner (db_address setting) is configured properly using the redis-server socket: /run/redis-openvas/redis.sock
OK: redis-server is running and listening on socket: /run/redis-openvas/redis.sock.
OK: redis-server configuration is OK and redis-server is running.
OK: _gvm owns all files in /var/lib/openvas/plugins
OK: NVT collection in /var/lib/openvas/plugins contains 69767 NVTs.
Checking that the obsolete redis database has been removed
Could not connect to Redis at /var/run/redis-openvas/redis-server.sock: No such file or directory
OK: No old Redis DB
OK: ospd-OpenVAS is present in version 21.4.0.
Step 2: Checking GVMD Manager ...
OK: GVM Manager (gvmd) is present in version 21.4.0.
Step 3: Checking Certificates ...
OK: GVM client certificate is valid and present as /var/lib/gvm/CA/clientcert.pem.
OK: Your GVM certificate infrastructure passed validation.
Step 4: Checking data ...
OK: SCAP data found in /var/lib/gvm/scap-data.
OK: CERT data found in /var/lib/gvm/cert-data.
Step 5: Checking Postgresql DB and user ...
OK: Postgresql version and default port are OK.
gvmd | _gvm | UTF8 | C.UTF-8 | C.UTF-8 |
OK: At least one user exists.
Step 6: Checking Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) ...
Oops, secure memory pool already initialized
OK: Greenbone Security Assistant is present in version 21.04.0~git.
Step 7: Checking if GVM services are up and running ...
OK: ospd-openvas service is active.
OK: gvmd service is active.
OK: greenbone-security-assistant service is active.
Step 8: Checking few other requirements...
OK: nmap is present in version 21.04.0~git.
OK: ssh-keygen found, LSC credential generation for GNU/Linux targets is likely to work.
OK: nsis found, LSC credential package generation for Microsoft Windows targets is likely to work.
OK: xsltproc found.
OK: The password policy file at /etc/gvm/pwpolicy.conf contains entries.
It seems like your GVM-21.4.0 installation is OK.
In the followinf lines you could see that I am using GVM 21.4.0:
dpkg -l | grep gvm
ii gvm 21.4.0.0~kali4 all remote network security auditor - metapackage and useful scripts
ii gvm-tools 21.6.0-0kali1 all Remote control the Greenbone Vulnerability Manager
ii gvmd 21.4.0-0kali2 amd64 Manager Module of Greenbone Vulnerability Manager
ii gvmd-common 21.4.0-0kali2 all architecture independent files for Greenbone Vulnerability Manager
ii libgvm21:amd64 21.4.0-0kali1 amd64 remote network security auditor - shared libraries
ii python3-gvm 21.5.2-0kali1 all Greenbone Vulnerability Management Python Library (Python 3)
The error occurs with “Full and fast” scan config