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OpenVAS stands for Open Vulnerability Assessment System and is a network
security scanner with associated tools like a graphical user front-end. The
core component is a server with a set of network vulnerability tests (NVTs)
to detect security problems in remote systems and applications.

OpenVAS products are Free Software under GNU GPL and a fork of Nessus.

This package provides the OpenVAS core libraries. To build OpenVAS server,
you have to compile and install the packages in the the following sequence:
1. openvas-libraries
2. openvas-libnasl
3. openvas-server
4. openvas-plugins

Maintained by: Marco Bonetti
Approved by: dsomero, rworkman
Keywords: security,nessus,vulnerabilities scanner