PDF file produced by scripts/pdf-report.gmp can not be opened successly

songnana · October 30, 2019, 3:18am

gvm-script -c ./gvm-tools.conf tls --hostname 127.0.0.1 --port 9390 pdf-report.gmp f06bdf89-c29c-4565-923a-d64908012067
PDF file produced command above can not be opened.

GVM versions

**gsad:8.0.1 (‘gsad --version’)
**gvmd: 8.0.1 (‘gvmd --version’)
**openvas:6.0.1 (‘openvassd --version’)
**gvm-libs:10.0.1
gvm-tools:2.0.0 release version
python-gvm:1.0.0 release version

Environment

**Operating system:linux fedora x86_64
**Kernel:Linux 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.x86_64 (‘uname -a’)
**Installation method / source:source code installation

bricks · November 1, 2019, 5:38pm

Please ensure you have installed the required packages e.g. xsltproc and xmlstarlet. There are a lot of topics regarding the missing packages for different distributions in this forum. E.g.

songnana · November 6, 2019, 8:52am

Thank you very much for your suggestion.

I have installed xsltproc，xmlstarlet and pdflatex, pdf doc produced by scripts/pdf-report.gmp can be display successly now.

cris · December 5, 2019, 9:56am

Hi, I have the same problem. I obtain a corrupted or ureadable PDF file by running pdf-report.gmp.
Sometimes I have also these errors:

binascii.Error: Invalid base64-encoded string: number of data characters (521125) cannot be 1 more than a multiple of 4
binascii.Error: Incorrect padding

I installed xsltproc, xmlstarlet, texlive*

GVM versions
gsad:8.0.1 (‘gsad --version’)
gvmd: 8.0.1 (‘gvmd --version’)
openvas:6.0.1 (‘openvassd --version’)
gvm-libs:10.0.1
gvm-tools:2.0.0 release version
python-gvm:1.0.0 release version

Environment
Operating system: Linux kali-server 5.2.0-kali2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.2.9-2kali1 (2019-08-22) x86_64

cris · December 10, 2019, 11:26am

No one?
Note that from the dashboard I correctly download the report in pdf format. The problem is to create the pdf using the pdf-report.gmp script. Thanks

bricks · December 16, 2019, 11:06am

pdf-report.gmp is an example script! You have to add some additional exception handling and debug output to get the root cause of the issue.

cris · December 17, 2019, 9:26am

Good job man, it works. It would be interesting to know in which part of the GCE python source code GSA generates pdf from xml…

Vicky · December 26, 2019, 10:15am

After changing the mentioned line of code with the new code, i am getting the following error

" ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘encode’ "

Can you please check it?

bricks · December 26, 2019, 12:35pm

Maybe it’s the same problem as

Vicky · December 26, 2019, 5:34pm

Thanks for the response.
So, is it there any other possibility to get the report?