Qualys Cloud Agent for Linux Intel 7.0.2

Limited Customer Release

January 06, 2025

New Features

We are not introducing any new features with this release of Cloud Agent for Linux.

Cloud Agent Enhancement

Software to Component Mapping

A SwCA scan discovers installed open-source software, libraries, and associated vulnerabilities on your asset and identifies programming language-based software packages on the asset.

With this release, we have added support for mapping these software components to their respective software applications. Only the software components installed in the operating system package manager will be mapped. This mapping will be done using QID-5001632, which collects software details such as software name, version, installation path, and software component path.

Software to component mapping helps you identify applications to which these vulnerable software components belong, prioritize patches based on severity, and allow faster response to potential threats.

Required Application Version

CyberSecurity Asset Management 3.3.2.0

Behavior Changes

There are no behavior changes in this release.

Platform Coverage Support

There is no new platform coverage added in this release.

Issue Addressed

The following notable and important issue(s) are fixed in this release.

Issue	Description
CRM-131824	We fixed an issue where the On Demand Scan feature did not work as expected for the Linux agents installed with relocation commands after upgrading to 6.4 and later versions. Now, we have added support for launching the On Demand scans for Cloud Agents installed in the alternate folder.
CRM-130647	We fixed an issue where an exceptional race condition in the Qualys Command Execution Pipeline (qualys-cep) processes triggered high CPU utilization after upgrading Cloud Agent to 6.3 and above versions.

Known Issues, Limitations, and Workaround

There are no known limitations in this release.