0006893: OSPD-Openvas ignoring "Consider Alive" setting in targets

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0006893	Kali Linux	Kali Package Bug	public	2020-12-01 12:16	2025-07-14 09:38

Reporter	alexishchuk	Assigned To	sbrun
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	2020.4

Summary	0006893: OSPD-Openvas ignoring "Consider Alive" setting in targets
Description	Option “Consider Alive” don’t have effect against targets that is blocking “ping tests”.
Steps To Reproduce	Create target on any URI witch is alive but ICMP packets blocked with option "Alive test" value "Consider alive". Scan task always rise error. /var/log/gvm/openvas.log contains "The remote host x.x.x.x is dead"
Additional Information	https://github.com/greenbone/ospd-openvas/pull/334 What: The selected alive test option overwrite the default settings. Why: The issue was that the preferences where added twice, but always the default ones were used because were found first. How: Run a scan with some alive test method different to the default one. An easy tests is to select "consider alive" against a dead hosts. https://github.com/greenbone/ospd-openvas/pull/334/commits/fc839006418e7d989cd9d37527fc2d800d691326

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2020-12-01 12:16	alexishchuk	New Issue
2020-12-03 10:07	sbrun	Assigned To	=> sbrun
2020-12-03 10:07	sbrun	Status	new => resolved
2020-12-03 10:07	sbrun	Resolution	open => fixed
2020-12-03 10:07	sbrun	Note Added: 0013936
2020-12-06 20:12	131Curious131	Issue cloned: 0006913
2025-07-14 09:38	g0tmi1k	Severity	crash => minor

sbrun 2020-12-03 10:07 manager ~0013936	fixed in version 20.8.0-0kali2