Lynis: Lynis 3.0.1

Lynis 3.0.1 (2020-10-05)

Added

• Detection of Alpine Linux
• Detection of CloudLinux
• Detection of Kali Linux
• Detection of Linux Mint
• Detection of macOS Big Sur (11.0)
• Detection of Pop!_OS
• Detection of PHP 7.4
• Malware detection tool: Microsoft Defender ATP
• New flag: –slow-warning to allow tests more time before showing a warning
• Test TIME-3185 to check systemd-timesyncd synchronized time
• rsh host file permissions

Changed

• AUTH-9229 – Added option for LOCKED accounts and bugfix for older bash versions
• BOOT-5122 – Presence check for grub.d added
• CRYP-7902 – Added support for certificates in DER format
• CRYP-7931 – Added data to report
• CRYP-7931 – Redirect errors (e.g. when swap is not encrypted)
• FILE-6430 – Don’t grep nonexistant modprobe.d files
• FIRE-4535 – Set initial firewall state
• INSE-8312 – Corrected text on screen
• KRNL-5728 – Handle zipped kernel configuration correctly
• KRNL-5830 – Improved version detection for non-symlinked kernel
• MALW-3280 – Extended detection of BitDefender
• TIME-3104 – Find more time synchronization commands
• TIME-3182 – Corrected detection of time peers
• Fix: hostid generation routine would sometimes show too short IDs
• Fix: language detection
• Generic improvements for macOS
• German translation updated
• End-of-life database updated
• Several minor code enhancements