Greetings,
I am running a virtualized Debian 10 with GSE 20.08 using VirtualBox. I established an intranet between a single other host which is an exploitable Windows Server. Both machines are cut off from Internet access.
My full and fast scans were getting stuck at 94%/96%/98%, running with 99% QoD. At first I thought it was regular behaviour, but then battery started draining quickly. Then I noticed even while running no scans, CPU utilization was high. So I used ps -aux (excerpts with a few seconds of interval):
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
redis 554 7.4 4.0 189912 123308 ? Ssl 12:43 0:07 /usr/bin/redis-
gvm 752 35.8 0.6 24240 18624 ? R 12:43 0:32 /usr/bin/perl -
gvm 594 8.3 0.7 193892 23348 ? Sl 12:43 0:11 /opt/gvm/bin/ospd-scanner/bin/python /opt/gvm/bin/ospd-scanner/bin/ospd-openvas --pid-
postgres 657 12.9 7.9 313012 243608 ? Rs 12:43 0:17 postgres: 11/main: gvm gvmd [local] INSERT
gvm 654 8.9 23.3 811624 719332 ? S 12:43 0:23 gvmd: Syncing SCAP: Updating CVEs
postgres 657 43.0 5.2 228476 161916 ? Rs 12:43 1:52 postgres: 11/main: gvm gvmd [local] INSERT
gvm 2221 0.0 0.0 2388 748 ? S 13:08 0:00 sh -c xml_split -s40Mb split.xml && head -n 2 split-00.xml > head.xml && echo '</cpe-list>' > tail.xm
gvm 2214 13.2 27.8 947908 856048 ? S 13:08 0:32 gvmd: Syncing SCAP: Updating CVEs
postgres 2217 64.5 5.4 232160 166640 ? Rs 13:08 2:40 postgres: 11/main: gvm gvmd [local] idle in transaction
Then I inspected /opt/gvm/var/log/gvm/ospd-scanner.log, which shows the following. The shuts down are just me powering off the virtual machine, but I do not know what the SIGABRT 6 is.
OSPD[506] 2020-10-28 09:29:29,806: INFO: (ospd.main) Starting OSPd OpenVAS version 20.8.1.
OSPD[506] 2020-10-28 09:32:17,329: ERROR: (ospd_openvas.openvas) OpenVAS Scanner failed to load VTs. Command ‘[‘openvas’, ‘–update-vt-info’]’ died with <Signals.SIGABRT: 6>.
OSPD[506] 2020-10-28 09:57:05,968: INFO: (ospd.main) Shutting-down server …
OSPD[552] 2020-10-28 09:57:21,031: INFO: (ospd.main) Starting OSPd OpenVAS version 20.8.1.
OSPD[552] 2020-10-28 09:58:47,995: ERROR: (ospd_openvas.openvas) OpenVAS Scanner failed to load VTs. Command ‘[‘openvas’, ‘–update-vt-info’]’ died with <Signals.SIGABRT: 6>.
OSPD[552] 2020-10-28 10:05:52,200: INFO: (ospd.main) Shutting-down server …
OSPD[570] 2020-10-28 10:09:40,576: INFO: (ospd.main) Starting OSPd OpenVAS version 20.8.1.
OSPD[570] 2020-10-28 10:11:23,410: ERROR: (ospd_openvas.openvas) OpenVAS Scanner failed to load VTs. Command ‘[‘openvas’, ‘–update-vt-info’]’ died with <Signals.SIGABRT: 6>.
Can anyone point me in the right direction on how I should further study and resolve the problem? My thanks for the attention in advance.
GVM versions
gsad: 20.08.0~git-17a736a39-gsa-20.08
gvmd: 20.08.0~git-0754740a-gvmd-20.08
openvas-scanner: OpenVAS 20.8.0
gvm-libs: 20.8.0~git-3597093-gvm-libs-20.08
Postgre version: postgres (PostgreSQL) 11.9 (Debian 11.9-0+deb10u1)
Environment
Operating system: Debian 10 Buster (virtualized in VirtualBox)
Kernel: Linux openvas20 4.19.0-12-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.152-1 (2020-10-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Installation method / source: AMD-64 ISO image with GNOME