loops that iterate over targets, not inside them. That prevents having
to iterate over every target doing nothing in the common case when those
scan types aren't used.
("and", "or", or "not") combined with categories, filenames, and filenames with
a '*', wildcard, to match many files. This change requires the script database
to be recompiled. Please see the thread at
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q2/0100.html for more information.
messages. Instead of handling an error nicely, it caused a format string
error of its own:
./nselib/stdnse.lua:61: bad argument #3 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
It seems that a deadlock happens immediately after one of these errors
occurs. This change doesn't fix the deadlock but allows the underlying
error message to be printed.
out of date. Here is an example:
NSE: failed to initialize the script engine:
./nse_main.lua:289: database appears to be corrupt or out of date;
please update using: nmap --script-updatedb
Windows. Use this bundle if no other was specified with --ssl-trustfile.
Instructions for extracting the certificates are included. I have to go back
now and make this compile on Unix.
which makes the 'to' value in a for .. to loop of type 'nil' - causing:
nselib/dns.lua:54: 'for' limit must be a number
stack traceback:
nselib/dns.lua:54: in function 'sendPackets'
nselib/dns.lua:194: in function 'query'
struct not being set in any of the pcap functions. Because of this,
the callback routines would attempt to use a NULL pointer for the lua_State *
and would then SEGFAULT.
[1] http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q2/0180.html
python-dev package in a certain error situation. Previously the
error message it printed was misleading:
error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
/usr/lib/python2.6/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
The change was suggested by Aaron Leininger.
Found whacked packet protocol 17 in get_ping_pcap_result
and rewrite it
Received packet with protocol 17; ignoring.
The message is printed when we receive a packet we can't use during a
ping scan, but it's not "whacked" to receive a UDP packet during a TCP
scan for example.
