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 libraries for NASL plugins. 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