7.70:
We're excited to make our first Nmap release of 2018--version 7.70! It
includes hundreds of new OS and service fingerprints, 9 new NSE scripts
(for a total of 588), a much-improved version of our Npcap windows packet
capturing library/driver, and service detection improvements to make -sV
faster and more accurate.
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Changes:
Nmap 7.30 [2016-09-29]
Integrated all 12 of your IPv6 OS fingerprint submissions from June to September. No new groups, but several classifications were strengthened, especially Windows localhost and OS X. [Daniel Miller]
[NSE] Added 7 NSE scripts, from 3 authors, bringing the total up to 541! They are all listed at https://nmap.org/nsedoc/, and the summaries are below (authors are listed in brackets):
[GH#369] coap-resources grabs the list of available resources from CoAP endpoints. [Mak Kolybabi]
fox-info retrieves detailed version and configuration info from Tridium Niagara Fox services. [Stephen Hilt]
ipmi-brute performs authentication brute-forcing on IPMI services. [Claudiu Perta]
ipmi-cipher-zero checks IPMI services for Cipher Zero support, which allows connection without a password. [Claudiu Perta]
ipmi-version retrieves protocol version and authentication options from ASF-RMCP (IPMI) services. [Claudiu Perta]
[GH#352] mqtt-subscribe connects to a MQTT broker, subscribes to topics, and lists the messages received. [Mak Kolybabi]
pcworx-info retrieves PLC model, firmware version, and date from Phoenix Contact PLCs. [Stephen Hilt]
Upgraded Npcap, our new Windows packet capturing driver/library, from version to 0.09 to 0.10r2. This includes many bug fixes, with a particular on emphasis on concurrency issues discovered by running hundreds of Nmap instances at a time. More details are available from https://github.com/nmap/npcap/releases. [Yang Luo, Daniel Miller, Fyodor]
New service probes and match lines for DTLS, IPMI-RMCP, MQTT, PCWorx, ProConOS, and Tridium Fox, [Stephen Hilt, Mak Kolybabi, Daniel Miller]
Improved some output filtering to remove or escape carriage returns ('\r') that could allow output spoofing by overwriting portions of the screen. Issue reported by Adam Rutherford. [Daniel Miller]
[NSE] Fixed a few bad Lua patterns that could result in denial of service due to excessive backtracking. [Adam Rutherford, Daniel Miller]
Fixed a discrepancy between the number of targets selected with -iR and the number of hosts scanned, resulting in output like "Nmap done: 1033 IP addresses" when the user specified -iR 1000. [Daniel Miller]
Fixed a bug in port specification parsing that could cause extraneous 'T', 'U', 'S', and 'P' characters to be ignored when they should have caused an error. [David Fifield]
[GH#543] Restored compatibility with LibreSSL, which was lost in adding library version checks for OpenSSL 1.1. [Wonko7]
[Zenmap] Fixed a bug in the Compare Scans window of Zenmap on OS X resulting in this message instead of Ndiff output:
ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/Zenmap.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/datetime.so, 2): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/Zenmap.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/datetime.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
Reported by Kyle Gustafson. [Daniel Miller]
[NSE] Fixed a bug in ssl-enum-ciphers and ssl-dh-params which caused them to not output TLSv1.2 info with DHE ciphersuites or others involving ServerKeyExchange messages. [Daniel Miller]
[NSE] Added X509v3 extension parsing to NSE's sslcert code. ssl-cert now shows the Subject Alternative Name extension; all extensions are shown in the XML output. [Daniel Miller]
Nmap 7.25BETA2 [2016-09-01]
[GH#376] Windows binaries are now code-signed with our "Insecure.Com LLC" SHA256 certificate. This should give our users extra peace-of-mind and avoid triggering Microsoft's ever-increasing security warnings.
[NSE] Upgraded NSE to Lua 5.3, adding bitwise operators, integer data type, a utf8 library, and native binary packing and unpacking functions. Removed bit library, added bits.lua, replaced base32, base64, and bin libraries. [Patrick Donnelly]
[NSE] Added 2 NSE scripts, bringing the total up to 534! They are both listed at https://nmap.org/nsedoc/, and the summaries are below:
oracle-tns-version decodes the version number from Oracle Database Server's TNS listener. [Daniel Miller]
clock-skew analyzes and reports clock skew between Nmap and services that report timestamps, grouping hosts with similar skews. [Daniel Miller]
Integrated all of your service/version detection fingerprints submitted from January to April (578 of them). The signature count went up 2.2% to 10760. We now detect 1122 protocols, from elasticsearch, fhem, and goldengate to ptcp, resin-watchdog, and siemens-logo. [Daniel Miller]
Upgraded Npcap, our new Windows packet capturing driver/library, from version 0.07-r17 to 0.09. This includes many improvements you can read about at https://github.com/nmap/npcap/releases.
[Nsock][GH#148] Added the new IOCP Nsock engine which uses the Windows Overlapped I/O API to improve performance of version scan and NSE against many targets on Windows. [Tudor Emil Coman]
[GH#376] Windows binaries are now code-signed with our "Insecure.Com LLC" SHA256 certificate. This should give our users extra peace-of-mind and avoid triggering Microsoft's ever-increasing security warnings.
Various performance improvements for large-scale high-rate scanning, including increased ping host groups, faster probe matching, and ensuring data types can handle an Internet's-worth of targets. [Tudor Emil Coman]
[NSE] Added the oracle-tns-version NSE script which decodes the version number from Oracle Database Server's TNS listener. https://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/oracle-tns-version.html [Daniel Miller]
[NSE] Added the clock-skew NSE script which analyzes and reports clock skew between Nmap and services that report timestamps, grouping hosts with similar skews. https://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/clock-skew.html [Daniel Miller]
[Zenmap] Long-overdue Spanish language translation has been added! Muy bien! [Vincent Dumont, Marta Garcia De La Paz, Paulino Calderon, Patricio Castagnaro]
[Zenmap][GH#449] Fix a crash when closing Zenmap due to a read-only zenmap.conf. User will be warned that config cannot be saved and that they should fix the file permissions. [Daniel Miller]
[NSE] Fix a crash when parsing TLS certificates that OpenSSL doesn't support, like DH certificates or corrupted certs. When this happens, ssl-enum-ciphers will label the ciphersuite strength as "unknown." Reported by Bertrand Bonnefoy-Claudet. [Daniel Miller]
[NSE][GH#531] Fix two issues in sslcert.lua that prevented correct operations against LDAP services when version detection or STARTTLS were used. [Tom Sellers]
[Zenmap] Long-overdue Spanish language translation has been added! Muy bien! [Vincent Dumont, Marta Garcia De La Paz, Paulino Calderon, Patricio Castagnaro]
[GH#426] Remove a workaround for lack of selectable pcap file descriptors on Windows, which required including pcap-int.h and locking us to a single version of libpcap. The new method, using WaitForSingleObject should work with all versions of both WinPcap and Npcap. [Daniel Miller]
[NSE][GH#234] Added a --script-timeout option for limiting run time for every individual NSE script. [Abhishek Singh]
[Ncat][GH#444] Added a -z option to Ncat. Just like the -z option in traditional netcat, it can be used to quickly check the status of a port. Port ranges are not supported since we recommend a certain other tool for port scanning. [Abhishek Singh]
Fix checking of Npcap/WinPcap presence on Windows so that "nmap -A" and "nmap" with no options result in the same behaviors as on Linux (and no crashes) [Daniel Miller]
[NSE] ssl-enum-ciphers will now warn about 64-bit block ciphers in CBC mode, which are vulnerable to the SWEET32 attack.
[NSE][GH#117] tftp-enum now only brute-forces IP-address-based Cisco filenames when the wordlist contains "{cisco}". Previously, custom wordlists would still end up sending these extra 256 requests. [Sriram Raghunathan]
[GH#472] Avoid an unnecessary assert failure in timing.cc when printing estimated completion time. Instead, we'll output a diagnostic error message:
Timing error: localtime(n) is NULL
where "n" is some number that is causing problems. [Jean-Guilhem Nousse]
[NSE][GH#519] Removed the obsolete script ip-geolocation-geobytes. [Paulino Calderon]
[NSE] Added 9 new fingerprints for script http-default-accounts. (Motorola AP, Lantronix print server, Dell iDRAC6, HP StorageWorks, Zabbix, Schneider controller, Xerox printer, Citrix NetScaler, ESXi hypervisor) [nnposter]
[NSE] Completed a refresh and validation of almost all fingerprints for script http-default-accounts. Also improved the script speed. [nnposter]
[GH#98] Added support for decoys in IPv6. Earlier we supported decoys only in IPv4. [Abhishek Singh]
Various performance improvements for large-scale high-rate scanning, including increased ping host groups, faster probe matching, and ensuring data types can handle an Internet's-worth of targets. [Tudor Emil Coman]
[GH#484] Allow Nmap to compile on some older Red Hat distros that disable EC crypto support in OpenSSL. [Jeroen Roovers, Vincent Dumont]
[GH#439] Nmap now supports OpenSSL 1.1.0-pre5 and previous versions. [Vincent Dumont]
[Ncat] Fix a crash ("add_fdinfo() failed.") when --exec was used with --ssl and --max-conns, due to improper accounting of file descriptors. [Daniel Miller]
FTP Bounce scan: improved some edge cases like anonymous login without password, 500 errors used to indicate port closed, and timeouts for LIST command. Also fixed a 1-byte array overrun (read) when checking for privileged ports. [Daniel Miller]
[GH#140] Allow target DNS names up to 254 bytes. We previously imposed an incorrect limit of 64 bytes in several parts of Nmap. [Vincent Dumont]
[NSE] The hard limit on number of concurrently running scripts can now increase above 1000 to match a high user-set --min-parallelism value. [Tudor Emil Coman]
[NSE] Solved a memory corruption issue that would happen if a socket connect operation produced an error immediately, such as Network Unreachable. The event handler was throwing a Lua error, preventing Nsock from cleaning up properly, leaking events. [Abhishek Singh, Daniel Miller]
[NSE] Added the datetime library for performing date and time calculations, and as a helper to the clock-skew script.
[GH#103][GH#364] Made Nmap's parallel reverse DNS resolver more robust, fully handling truncated replies. If a response is too long, we now fall back to using the system resolver to answer it. [Abhishek Singh]
[Zenmap][GH#279] Added a legend for the Topography window. [Suraj Hande]
Nmap 7.25BETA1 [2016-07-15]
Nmap now ships with and uses Npcap, our new packet sniffing library for Windows. It's based on WinPcap (unmaintained for years), but uses modern Windows APIs for better performance. It also includes security improvements and many bug fixes. See http://npcap.org. And it enables Nmap to perform SYN scans and OS detection against localhost, which we haven't been able to do on Windows since Microsoft removed the raw sockets API in 2003. [Yang Luo, Daniel Miller, Fyodor]
[NSE] Added 6 NSE scripts, from 5 authors, bringing the total up to 533! They are all listed at https://nmap.org/nsedoc/, and the summaries are below (authors are listed in brackets):
clamav-exec detects ClamAV servers vulnerable to unauthorized clamav command execution. [Paulino Calderon]
http-aspnet-debug detects ASP.NET applications with debugging enabled. [Josh Amishav-Zlatin]
http-internal-ip-disclosure determines if the web server leaks its internal IP address when sending an HTTP/1.0 request without a Host header. [Josh Amishav-Zlatin]
[GH#304] http-mcmp detects mod_cluster Management Protocol (MCMP) and dumps its configuration. [Frank Spierings]
[GH#365] sslv2-drown detects vulnerability to the DROWN attack, including CVE-2016-0703 and CVE-2016-0704 that enable fast attacks on OpenSSL. [Bertrand Bonnefoy-Claudet]
vnc-title logs in to VNC servers and grabs the desktop title, geometry, and color depth. [Daniel Miller]
Integrated all of your IPv4 OS fingerprint submissions from January to April (539 of them). Added 98 fingerprints, bringing the new total to 5187. Additions include Linux 4.4, Android 6.0, Windows Server 2016, and more. [Daniel Miller]
Integrated all 31 of your IPv6 OS fingerprint submissions from January to June. The classifier added 2 groups and expanded several others. Several Apple OS X groups were consolidated, reducing the total number of groups to 93. [Daniel Miller]
Update oldest supported Windows version to Vista (Windows 6.0). This enables the use of the poll Nsock engine, which has significant performance and accuracy advantages. Windows XP users can still use Nmap 7.12, available from https://nmap.org/dist/?C=M&O=D [Daniel Miller]
[NSE] Fix a crash that happened when trying to print the percent done of 0 NSE script threads:
timing.cc:710 bool ScanProgressMeter::printStats(double, const timeval*): Assertion 'ltime' failed.
This would happen if no scripts were scheduled in a scan phase and the user pressed a key or specified a short --stats-every interval. Reported by Richard Petrie. [Daniel Miller]
[GH#283][Nsock] Avoid "unknown protocol:0" debug messages and an "Unknown address family 0" crash on Windows and other platforms that do not set the src_addr argument to recvfrom for TCP sockets. [Daniel Miller]
Retrieve the correct network prefix length for an adapter on Windows. If more than one address was configured on an adapter, the same prefix length would be used for both. This incorrect behavior is still used on Windows XP and earlier. Reported by Niels Bohr. [Daniel Miller]
Changed libdnet-stripped to avoid bailing completely when an interface is encountered with an unsupported hardware address type. Caused "INTERFACES: NONE FOUND!" bugs in Nmap whenever Linux kernel added new hardware address types. [Daniel Miller]
Improved service detection of Docker and fixed a bug in the output of docker-version script. [Tom Sellers]
Fix detection of Microsoft Terminal Services (RDP). Our improved TLS service probes were matching on port 3389 before our specific Terminal Services probe, causing the port to be labeled as "ssl/unknown". Reported by Josh Amishav-Zlatin.
[NSE] Update to enable smb-os-discovery to augment version detection for certain SMB related services using data that the script discovers. [Tom Sellers]
Improved version detection and descriptions for Microsoft and Samba SMB services. Also addresses certain issues with OS identification. [Tom Sellers]
[NSE] ssl-enum-ciphers will give a failing score to any server with an RSA certificate whose public key uses an exponent of 1. It will also cap the score of an RC4-ciphersuite handshake at C and output a warning referencing RFC 7465. [Daniel Miller]
[NSE] Refactored some SSLv2 functionality into a new library, sslv2.lua . [Daniel Miller]
[GH#399] Zenmap's authorization wrapper now uses an AppleScript method for privilege escalation on OS X, avoiding the deprecated AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges method previously used. [Vincent Dumont]
[GH#454] The OS X binary package is distributed in a .dmg disk image that now features an instructive background image. [Vincent Dumont]
[GH#420] Our OS X build system now uses gtk-mac-bundler and jhbuild to provide all dependencies. We no longer use Macports for this purpose. [Vincent Dumont]
[GH#345][Zenmap] On Windows, save Zenmap's stderr output to a writeable location (%LOCALAPPDATA%\zenmap.exe.log or %TEMP%\zenmap.exe.log) instead of next to the zenmap.exe executable. This avoids a warning message when closing Zenmap if it produced any stderr output. [Daniel Miller]
[GH#379][NSE] Fix http-iis-short-name-brute to report non vulnerable hosts. Reported by alias1. [Paulino Calderon]
[NSE][GH#371] Fix mysql-audit by adding needed library requires to the mysql-cis.audit file. The script would fail with "Failed to load rulebase" message. [Paolo Perego]
[NSE][GH#362] Added support for LDAP over udp to ldap-rootdse.nse. Also added version detection and information extraction to match the new LDAP LDAPSearchReq and LDAPSearchReqUDP probes. [Tom Sellers]
[GH#354] Added new version detection Probes for LDAP services, LDAPSearchReq and LDAPSearchReqUDP. The second is Microsoft Active Directory specific. The Probes will elicit responses from target services that allow better finger -printing and information extraction. Also added nmap-payload entry for detecting LDAP on udp. [Tom Sellers]
[NSE] More VNC updates: Support for VeNCrypt and Tight auth types, output of authentication sub-types in vnc-info, and all zero-authentication types are recognized and reported. [Daniel Miller]
o [Zenmap] Avoid file corruption in zenmap.conf, reported as files containing
many null ("\x00") characters. Example exception:
ValueError: unable to parse colour specification
o [NSE] VNC updates including vnc-brute support for TLS security type and
negotiating a lower RFB version if the server sends an unknown higher
version.
o [NSE] Added STARTTLS support for VNC, NNTP, and LMTP
o Added new service probes and match lines for OpenVPN on UDP and TCP.
o Integrated all of your IPv4 OS fingerprint submissions since June 2013
(2700+ of them). Added 366 fingerprints, bringing the new total to 4485.
Additions include Linux 3.10 - 3.14, iOS 7, OpenBSD 5.4 - 5.5, FreeBSD 9.2,
OS X 10.9, Android 4.3, and more. Many existing fingerprints were improved.
Highlights: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2014/q3/325
o (Windows) Upgraded the included OpenSSL to version 1.0.1i.
o (Windows) Upgraded the included Python to version 2.7.8.
o Removed the External Entity Declaration from the DOCTYPE in Nmap's XML. This
was added in 6.45, and resulted in trouble for Nmap XML parsers without
network access, as well as increased traffic to Nmap's servers. The doctype
is now:
<!DOCTYPE nmaprun>
o [Ndiff] Fixed the installation process on Windows, which was missing the
actual Ndiff Python module since we separated it from the driver script.
o [Ndiff] Fixed the ndiff.bat wrapper in the zipfile Windows distribution,
which was giving the error, "\Microsoft was unexpected at this time." See
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2524009
o [Zenmap] Fixed the Zenmap .dmg installer for OS X. Zenmap failed to launch,
producing this error:
Could not import the zenmapGUI.App module:
'dlopen(/Applications/Zenmap.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/glib/_glib.so, 2):
Library not loaded: /Users/david/macports-10.5/lib/libffi.5.dylib\n
Referenced from:
/Applications/Zenmap.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/glib/_glib.so\n
Reason: image not found'.
o [Ncat] Fixed SOCKS5 username/password authentication. The password length was
being written in the wrong place, so authentication could not succeed.
o Avoid formatting NULL as "%s" when running nmap --iflist. GNU libc converts
this to the string "(null)", but it caused segfault on Solaris.
o [Zenmap][Ndiff] Avoid crashing when users have the antiquated PyXML package
installed. Python tries to be nice and loads it when we import xml, but it
isn't compatible. Instead, we force Python to use the standard library xml
module.
o Handle ICMP admin-prohibited messages when doing service version detection.
Crash reported by Nathan Stocks was: Unexpected error in NSE_TYPE_READ
callback. Error code: 101 (Network is unreachable)
o [NSE] Fix a bug causing http.head to not honor redirects.
o [Zenmap] Fix a bug in DiffViewer causing this crash:
TypeError: GtkTextBuffer.set_text() argument 1 must be string or read-only
buffer, not NmapParserSAX
Crash happened when trying to compare two scans within Zenmap.
o [NSE] Added CPE to smb-os-discovery output.
o [Ncat] Fixed the printing of warning messages for large arguments to
the -i and -w options.
o [Ncat] Shut down the write part of connected sockets in listen mode
when stdin hits EOF, just as was already done in connect mode.
o [Zenmap] Removed a crashing error that could happen when canceling a
"Print to File" on Windows:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "zenmapGUI\MainWindow.pyo", line 831, in _print_cb
File "zenmapGUI\Print.pyo", line 156, in run_print_operation
GError: Error from StartDoc
o [NSE] Added new fingerprints for http-enum: Sitecore, Moodle, typo3,
SquirrelMail, RoundCube.
o Added some new checks for failed library calls.
"The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability
of the Nmap Security Scanner version 6.00 from http://nmap.org/.
It is the product of almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits,
and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July
2009. Nmap 6 includes a more powerful Nmap Scripting Engine, 289 new scripts,
better web scanning, full IPv6 support, the Nping packet prober, faster scans, and much more! We recommend that all current users upgrade."
Here is a condensed Changelog:
Nmap 6.01 [2012-06-13]
o [Zenmap] Fixed a hang that would occur on Mac OS X 10.7.
o [Zenmap] Fixed a crash that happened when activating the host filter.
o Fixed a bug that caused Nmap to fail to find any network interface when
at least one of them is in the monitor mode.
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q2/449http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q2/478
o Fixed the greppable output of hosts that time-out.
Nmap 6.00 [2012-05-21]
o Most important release since Nmap 5.00 in July 2009! For a list of
the most significant improvements and new features, see the
announcement at: http://nmap.org/6
o Some XML output improvements...
o Lots of NSE scripts added and updated...
o Fixed the routing table loop on OS X so that on-link routes appear.
o Upgraded included libpcap to version 1.2.1.
o Fixed a compilation problem on Solaris 9 caused by a missing
definition of IPV6_V6ONLY.
o Setting --min-parallelism by itself no longer forces the maximum
parallelism to the same value.
o [Zenmap] Fixed a crash that would happen in the profile editor when
the script.db file doesn't exist.
o [Zenmap] It is now possible to compare scans having the same name or
command line parameters.
o Fixed an error that could occur with ICMPv6 probes and -d4 debugging:
"Unexpected probespec2ascii type encountered"
o Applied a workaround to make pcap captures work better on Solaris 10.
o Fixed a bug that could cause Nsock timers to fire too early.
o Changed the way timeout calculations are made in the IPv6 OS engine.
Nmap 5.61TEST5 [2012-03-09]
o Integrated all of your IPv4 OS fingerprint submissions since June
2011 (about 1,900 of them). Added about 256 new fingerprints (and
deleted some bogus ones), bringing the new total to 3,572.
Additions include Apple iOS 5.01, OpenBSD 4.9 and 5.0, FreeBSD 7.0
through 9.0-PRERELEASE, and a ton of new WAPs, routers, and other
devices. Many existing fingerprints were improved. For more details,
see http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q1/431
o Integrated all of your service/version detection fingerprints
submitted since November 2010--more than 2,500 of them! Our
signature count increased more than 10% to 7,423 covering 862
protocols. Some amusing and bizarre new services are described at
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q1/359
o Integrated your latest IPv6 OS submissions and corrections. We're
still low on IPv6 fingerprints, so please scan any IPv6 systems you
own or administer and submit them to http://nmap.org/submit/. Both
new fingerprints (if Nmap doesn't find a good match) and corrections
(if Nmap guesses wrong) are useful.
o IPv6 OS detection now includes a novelty detection system which
avoids printing a match when an observed fingerprint is too
different from fingerprints seen before. As the OS database is still
small, this helps to avoid making (essentially) wild guesses when
seeing a new operating system.
o Refactored the nsock library to add the nsock-engines system.
o [NSE] Added 43(!) NSE scripts, bringing the total up to 340.
o CPE (Common Platform Enumeration) OS classification is now supported
for IPv6 OS detection.
[...]
Nmap 5.61TEST4 [2012-01-02] -> Nmap 5.61TEST1
[...]
Lots of Bugfixes!
Thanks to jschauma@ for analysing a NetBSD related problem,
and to David Fifield for providing the (upstream) patch.
Some of the highlights are:
o [Zenmap] Added a new script selection interface, allowing you to
choose scripts and arguments from a list.
o [Nping] Added echo mode, learn more about echo mode at
http://nmap.org/book/nping-man-echo-mode.html.
o [NSE] Added an amazing 46 scripts, bringing the total to 177!
You can learn more about any of them at http://nmap.org/nsedoc/
o [NSE] Added 12 new protocol libraries.
o [NSE] Added a new brute library that provides a basic framework and logic
for brute force password auditing scripts.
o [Zenmap] Greatly improved performance for large scans by
benchmarking intensively and then recoding dozens of slow parts.
o Performed a major OS detection integration run. The database has
grown more than 14% to 2,982 fingerprints and many of the existing
fingerprints were improved. David posted highlights of his integration work at
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q4/651
o Performed a huge version detection integration run. The number of
signatures has grown by more than 11% to 7,355. David posted highlights at
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q4/761
o [NSE] Nmap has two new NSE script scanning phases. See
http://nmap.org/book/nse-usage.html#nse-script-types
o Dramatically improved nmap.xsl (used for converting Nmap XML output
to HTML).
o Integrated cracked passwords from the Gawker.com compromise
(http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q4/674) into Nmap's top-5000
password database.
o Merged port names in the nmap-services file with allocated names
from the IANA (http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers).
o [Zenmap] Made the topology node radiuses grow logarithmically
instead of linearly, so that hosts with thousands of open ports
don't overwhelm the diagram.
o Improved IPv6 host output in that we now remember and report the
forward DNS name (given by the user) and any non-scanned addresses
(usually because of round robin DNS).
o [Zenmap] Upgraded to the newer gtk.Tooltip API to avoid deprecation
messages about gtk.Tooltip.
o [NSE] Enhance ssl-cert to also report the type and bit size of SSL
certificate public keys.
o [Nping] Nping now limits concurrent open file descriptors properly
based on the resources available on the host.
o Ncat now logs Nsock debug output to stderr instead of stdout for
consistency with its other debug messages.
o Changed the name of libdnet's sctp_chunkhdr to avoid a conflict with
a struct of the same name in <netinet/sctp.h>.
o [NSE] Host tables now have a host.traceroute member available when
--traceroute is used.
o Nmap now prints the MTU for interfaces in --iflist output.
o [Ncat,NSE] Server Name Indication (SNI) is now supported by Ncat and
Nmap NSE, allowing them to connect to servers which run multiple SSL
websites on one IP address.
o [Nsock] Added a new function, nsi_set_hostname, to set the intended
hostname of the target.
o [NSE] Made sslv2.nse give special output when SSLv2 is supported,
but no SSLv2 ciphers are offered.
o Fixed the fragmentation options (-f in Nmap, --mtu in Nmap & Nping),
which were improperly sending whole packets in version 5.35DC1.
o [NSE] When receiving raw packets from Pcap, the packet capture time
is now available to scripts as an additional return value from
pcap_receive().
o Updated IANA IP address space assignment list for random IP (-iR)
generation.
o [Ncat] Ncat now uses case-insensitive string comparison when
checking authentication schemes and parameters.
o [NSE] There is now a limit of 1,000 concurrent running scripts,
instituted to keep memory under control when there are many open
ports.
Plus many bugfixes and improvements.
For full changelog, see http://nmap.org/changelog.html
Some of the highlights are:
o [NSE] Added more scripts, bringing the total to 131!
o Performed a major OS detection integration run.
o Performed a large version detection integration run.
o [Zenmap] Added the ability to print Nmap output to a printer.
o [Nmap, Ncat, Nping] The default unit for time specifications is now
seconds, not milliseconds, and times may have a decimal point.
o Ports are now considered open during a SYN scan if a SYN packet
(without the ACK flag) is received in response.
o [Ncat] In listen mode, the --exec and --sh-exec options now accept a
single connection and then exit, just like in normal listen mode.
o UDP payloads are now stored in an external data file, nmap-payloads,
instead of being hard-coded in the executable.
o Added a new library, libnetutil, which contains about 2,700 lines of
networking related code which is now shared between Nmap and Nping
o Improved service detection match lines.
o Improved our brute force password guessing list by mixing in some
data sent in by Solar Designer of John the Ripper fame.
o [Zenmap] IP addresses are now sorted by octet rather than their
string representation.
o [Ncat] When receiving a connection/datagram in listen mode, Ncat now
prints the connecting source port along with the IP address.
o Added EPROTO to the list of known error codes in service scan.
o Updated IANA IP address space assignment list for random IP (-iR)
generation.
o Zenmap's "slow comprehensive scan profile" has been modified to use
the best 7-probe host discovery combination we were able to find in
extensive empirical testing
o Zenmap now lets you save scan results in normal Nmap text output
format or (as before) as XML.
o [NSE] Raw packet sending at the IP layer is now supported, in
addition to the existing Ethernet sending functionality.
o Nmap now honors routing table entries that override interface
addresses and netmasks.
o [Ncat] The HTTP proxy server now accepts client connections over
SSL, and added support for HTTP digest authentication of proxies, as
both client and server.
o Improved the MIT Kerberos version detection signatures.
Plus many bugfixes and improvements.
For full changelog, see http://nmap.org/changelog.html
Some of highlights are:
o Dramatically improved the version detection database, integrating
2,596 submissions that users contributed since February 3, 2009!
o Added 7 new NSE scripts for a grand total of 79!
o Performed a memory consumption audit and made changes to
dramatically reduce Nmap's footprint.
o A major service detection submission integration.
o Added some new service detection probes
o Added 14 new NSE scripts for a grand total of 72! You can learn
about them all at http://nmap.org/nsedoc/. Here are the new ones:
o Nmap's --traceroute has been rewritten for better performance.
o Integrated 1,349 fingerprints (and 81 corrections).
o [NSE] Default socket parallelism has been doubled from 10 to 20.
o [NSE] Now supports worker threads
o Zenmap now includes ports in the services view whenever Nmap found
them "interesting," whatever their state.
o [Ncat, Ndiff] The exit codes of these programs now reflect whether
they succeeded.
o Optimize MAC address prefix lookup by using an std::map
o Canonicalized the list of OS detection device types to a smaller set.
o Zenmap's UI performance has improved significantly.
o [NSE] socket garbage collection was rewritten for better performance.
Many many bugfixes!
For full changelog, see http://nmap.org/changelog.html
Ok'ed during freeze by wiz@
Fix for PR#41506
Fix missing @dirrm entries from PLIST*
Before we go into the detailed changes, here are the top 5 improvements in Nmap 5:
1. The new Ncat tool aims to be your Swiss Army Knife for data transfer, redirection, and debugging. We released a whole users' guide detailing security testing and network administration tasks made easy with Ncat.
2. The addition of the Ndiff scan comparison tool completes Nmap's growth into a whole suite of applications which work together to serve network administrators and security practitioners. Ndiff makes it easy to automatically scan your network daily and report on any changes (systems coming up or going down or changes to the software services they are running). The other two tools now packaged with Nmap itself are Ncat and the much improved Zenmap GUI and results viewer.
3. Nmap performance has improved dramatically. We spent last summer scanning much of the Internet and merging that data with internal enterprise scan logs to determine the most commonly open ports. This allows Nmap to scan fewer ports by default while finding more open ports. We also added a fixed-rate scan engine so you can bypass Nmap's congestion control algorithms and scan at exactly the rate (packets per second) you specify.
4. We released Nmap Network Scanning, the official Nmap guide to network discovery and security scanning. From explaining port scanning basics for novices to detailing low-level packet crafting methods used by advanced hackers, this book suits all levels of security and networking professionals. A 42-page reference guide documents every Nmap feature and option, while the rest of the book demonstrates how to apply those features to quickly solve real-world tasks. More than half the book is available in the free online edition.
5. The Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) is one of Nmap's most powerful and flexible features. It allows users to write (and share) simple scripts to automate a wide variety of networking tasks. Those scripts are then executed in parallel with the speed and efficiency you expect from Nmap. All existing scripts have been improved, and 32 new ones added. New scripts include a whole bunch of MSRPC/NetBIOS attacks, queries, and vulnerability probes; open proxy detection; whois and AS number lookup queries; brute force attack scripts against the SNMP and POP3 protocols; and many more. All NSE scripts and modules are described in the new NSE documentation portal.
Details are here: http://nmap.org/changelog.html
actual length of each item is never less than sizeof(struct ifreq), but
may be more than that. If the platform's struct sockaddr has an sa_len
field, and if the length in sa_len is larger then the space available in
ifr_ifru, then the data extends beyond the end of the ifr_ifru field by
the difference in sizes.
Fixed the --script-updatedb command
Fixed several byte-order bugs in Traceroute
Service fingerprints in XML output are no longer be truncated
Added a UDP SNMPv3 probe to version detection
Zenmap no longer leaves any temporary files lying around.
*Lots* of Zenmap fixes
See CHANGELOG for all the details
Take MAINTAINER (agreed with salo@)
o Updated to include the latest MAC Address prefixes from the IEEE in
nmap-mac-prefixes [Fyodor]
o NSE engine was cleaned up significantly.
o Nmap now understands the RFC 4007 percent syntax for IPv6 Zone IDs.
o Updated IANA assignment IP list for random IP (-iR)
generation. [Kris]
o NmapFE is now gone. (zenmap is the replacement)
o Added the NSE library (NSELib) which is a library of useful
functions (which can be implemented in LUA or as loadable C/C++
modules) for use by NSE scripts.
o Integrated the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) into mainline Nmap.
Changes:
4.20
o Integrated the latest OS fingerprint submissions. The 2nd
generation DB size has grown to 231 fingerprints. Please keep them
coming! New fingerprints include Mac OS X Server 10.5 pre-release,
NetBSD 4.99.4, Windows NT, and much more.
o Fixed a segmentation fault in the new OS detection system
which was reported by Craig Humphrey and Sebastian Garcia.
o Fixed a TCP sequence prediction difficulty indicator bug. The index
is supposed to go from 0 ("trivial joke") to about 260 (OpenBSD).
But some systems generated ISNs so insecurely that Nmap went
berserk and reported a negative difficulty index. This generally
only affects some printers, crappy cable modems, and Microsoft
Windows (old versions). Thanks to Sebastian Garcia for helping me
track down the problem.
4.20RC2
o Integrated all of your OS detection submissions since RC1. The DB
has increased 13% to 214 fingerprints. Please keep them coming!
New fingerprints include versions of z/OS, OpenBSD, Linux, AIX,
FreeBSD, Cisco CatOS, IPSO firewall, and a slew of printers and
misc. devices. We also got our first Windows 95 fingerprint,
submitted anonymously of course :).
o Fixed (I hope) the "getinterfaces: intf_loop() failed" error which
was seen on Windows Vista. The problem was apparently in
intf-win32.c of libdnet (need to define MIB_IF_TYPE_MAX to
MAX_IF_TYPE rather than 32). Thanks to Dan Griffin
(dan(a)jwsecure.com) for tracking this down!
o Applied a couple minor bug fixes for IP options
support and packet tracing. Thanks to Michal Luczaj
(regenrecht(a)o2.pl) for reporting them.
o Incorporated SLNP (Simple Library Network Protocol) version
detection support. Thanks to Tibor Csogor (tibi(a)tiborius.net) for
the patch.
4.20RC1
o Fixed (I hope) a bug related to Pcap capture on Mac OS X. Thanks to
Christophe Thil for reporting the problem and to Kurt Grutzmacher
and Diman Todorov for helping to track it down.
o Integrated all of your OS detection submissions since ALPHA11. The
DB has increased 27% to 189 signatures. Notable additions include
the Apple Airport Express, Windows Vista RC1, OpenBSD 4.0, a Sony
TiVo device, and tons of broadband routers, printers, switches, and
Linux kernels. Keep those submissions coming!
o Upgraded the included LibPCRE from version 6.4 to 6.7. Thanks to
Jochen Voss (voss(a)seehuhn.de) for the suggestion (he found some bugs
in 6.4)
4.20ALPHA11
o Integrated all of your OS detection submissions, bringing the
database up to 149 fingerprints. This is an increase of 28% from
ALPHA10. Notable additions include FreeBSD 6.1, a bunch of HP
LaserJet printers, and HP-UX 11.11. We also got a bunch of more
obscure submissions like Minix 3.1.2a and "Ember InSight Adapter for
programming EM2XX-family embedded devices". Who doesn't have a few
of those laying around? I'm hoping that all the obscure submissions
mean that more of the mainstream systems are being detected out of
the box! Please keep those submissions (obscure or otherwise)
coming!
4.20ALPHA10
o Integrated tons of new OS fingerprints. The DB now contains 116
fingerprints, which is up 63% since the previous version. Please keep
the submissions coming!
4.20ALPHA9
o Integrated the newly submitted OS fingerprints. The DB now contains
71 fingerprints, up 27% from 56 in ALPHA8. Please keep them coming!
We still only have 4.2% as many fingerprints as the gen1 database.
o Added the --open option, which causes Nmap to show only open ports.
Ports in the states "open|closed" and "unfiltered" might be open, so
those are shown unless the host has an overwhelming number of them.
o Nmap gen2 OS detection used to always do 2 retries if it fails to
find a match. Now it normally does just 1 retry, but does 4 retries
if conditions are good enough to warrant fingerprint submission.
This should speed things up on average. A new --max-os-tries option
lets you specify a higher lower maximum number of tries.
o Added --unprivileged option, which is the opposite of --privileged.
It tells Nmap to treat the user as lacking network raw socket and
sniffing privileges. This is useful for testing, debugging, or when
the raw network functionality of your operating system is somehow
broken.
o Fixed a confusing error message which occured when you specified a
ping scan or list scan, but also specified -p (which is only used for
port scans). Thanks to Thomas Buchanan for the patch.
o Applied some small cleanup patches from Kris Katterjohn
4.20ALPHA8
o Integrated the newly submitted OS fingerprints. The DB now contains
56, up 33% from 42 in ALPHA7. Please keep them coming! We still only
have 3.33% as many signatures as the gen1 database.
o Nmap 2nd generation OS detection now has a more sophisticated
mechanism for guessing a target OS when there is no exact match in the
database (see http://insecure.org/nmap/osdetect/osdetect-guess.html )
o Rewrote mswin32/nmap.rc to remove cruft and hopefully reduce some
MFC-related compilation problems we've seen. Thanks to KX
(kxmail(a)gmail.com) for doing this.
o NmapFE now uses a spin button for verbosity and debugging options so
that you can specify whatever verbosity (-v) or debugging (-d) level
you desire. The --randomize-hosts option was also added to NmapFE.
Thanks to Kris Katterjohn for the patches.
o A dozen or so small patches to Nmap and NmapFE by Kris Katterjohn.
o Removed libpcap/Win32 and libpcap/msdos as Nmap doesn't use them.
This reduces the Nmap tar.bz2 by about 50K. Thanks to Kris Katterjohn
for the suggestion.
4.20ALPHA7
o Did a bunch of Nmap 2nd generation fingerprint integration work.
Thanks to everyone who sent some in, though we still need a lot more.
Also thanks to Zhao for a bunch of help with the integration tools.
4.20ALPHA6 had 12 fingerprints, this new version has 42. The old DB
(still included) has 1,684.
o Updated nmap-mac-prefixes to reflect the latest OUI DB from the IEEE
(http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt) as of September 6, 2006.
Also added the unregistered PearPC virtual NIC prefix, as suggested
by Robert Millan (rmh(a)aybabtu.com).
o Applied some small internal cleanup patches by Kris Katterjohn.
4.20ALPHA6
o Fixed a bug in 2nd generation OS detection which would (usually) prevent
fingerprints from being printed when systems don't respond to the 1st
ICMP echo probe (the one with bogus code value of 9). Thanks to
Brandon Enright for reporting and helping me debug the problem.
o Fixed some problematic Nmap version detection signatures which could
cause warning messages. Thanks to Brandon Enright for the initial patch.
4.20ALPHA5
o Worked with Zhao to improve the new OS detection system with
better algorithms, probe changes, and bug fixes. We're
now ready to start growing the new database! If Nmap gives you
fingerprints, please submit them at the given URL. The DB is still
extremely small. The new system is extensively documented at
http://insecure.org/nmap/osdetect/ .
o Nmap now supports IP options with the new --ip-options flag. You
can specify any options in hex, or use "R" (record route), "T"
(record timestamp), "U") (record route & timestamp), "S [route]"
(strict source route), or "L [route]" (loose source route). Specify
--packet-trace to display IP options of responses. For further
information and examples, see http://insecure.org/nmap/man/ and
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2006/q3/0052.html . Thanks to Marek
Majkowski for writing and sending the patch.
o Integrated all 2nd quarter service detection fingerprint
submissions. Please keep them coming! We now have 3,671 signatures
representing 415 protocols. Thanks to version detection czar Doug
Hoyte for doing this.
o Nmap now uses the (relatively) new libpcap pcap_get_selectable_fd
API on systems which support it. This means that we no longer need
to hack the included Pcap to better support Linux. So Nmap will now
link with an existing system libpcap by default on that platform if
one is detected. Thanks to Doug Hoyte for the patch.
o Updated the included libpcap from 0.9.3 to 0.9.4. The changes I
made are in libpcap/NMAP_MODIFICATIONS . By default, Nmap will now
use the included libpcap unless version 0.9.4 or greater is already
installed on the system.
o Applied some nsock bugfixes from Diman Todorov. These don't affect
the current version of Nmap, but are important for his Nmap
Scripting Engine, which I hope to integrate into mainline Nmap in
September.
o Fixed a bug which would occasionally cause Nmap to crash with the
message "log_vwrite: write buffer not large enough". I thought I
conquered it in a previous release -- thanks to Doug Hoyte for finding a
corner case which proved me wrong.
o Fixed a bug in the rDNS system which prevented us from querying
certain authoritative DNS servers which have recursion explicitly
disabled. Thanks to Doug Hoyte for the patch.
o --packet-trace now reports TCP options (thanks to Zhao Lei for the
patch). Thanks to the --ip-options addition also found in this
release, IP options are printed too.
o Cleaned up Nmap DNS reporting to be a little more useful and
concise. Thanks to Doug Hoyte for the patch.
o Applied a bunch of small internal cleanup patches by Kris Katterjohn
(kjak(a)ispwest.com).
o Fixed the 'distclean' make target to be more comprehensive. Thanks
to Thomas Buchanan (Thomas.Buchanan(a)thecompassgrp.net) for the
patch.
Nmap 4.20ALPHA4
o Nmap now provides progress statistics in the XML output in verbose
mode. Here are some examples of the format (etc is "estimated time
until completion) and times are in UNIX time_t (seconds since 1970)
format. Angle braces have been replaced by square braces:
[taskbegin task="SYN Stealth Scan" time="1151384685" /]
[taskprogress task="SYN Stealth Scan" time="1151384715"
percent="13.85" remaining="187" etc="1151384902" /]
[taskend task="SYN Stealth Scan" time="1151384776" /]
[taskbegin task="Service scan" time="1151384776" /]
[taskend task="Service scan" time="1151384788" /]
Thanks to Adam Vartanian (flooey(a)gmail.com) for the patch.
o Updated the Windows installer to give an option checkbox for
performing the Nmap performance registry changes. The default is to
do so. Thanks to Adam Vartanian (flooey(a)gmail.com) for the patch.
o Applied several code cleanup patches from Marek Majkowski.
o Added --release-memory option, which causes Nmap to release all
accessible memory buffers before quitting (rather than let the OS do
it). This is only useful for debugging memory leaks.
o Fixed a bug related to bogus completion time estimates when you
request an estimate (through runtime interaction) right when Nmap is
starting.a subsystem (such as a port scan or version detection).
Thanks to Diman Todorov for reporting the problem and Doug Hoyte for
writing a fix.
o Nmap no longer gets random numbers from OpenSSL when it is available
because that turned out to be slower than Nmap's other methods
(e.g. /dev/urandom on Linux, /dev/arandom on OpenBSD, etc.). Thanks
to Marek Majkowski for reporting the problem.
o Updated the Windows binary distributions (self-installer and .zip)
to include the new 2nd generation OS detection DB (nmap-os-db).
Thanks to Sina Bahram for reporting the problem.
o Fixed the --max-retries option, which wasn't being honored. Thanks
to Jon Passki (jon.passki(a)hursk.com) for the patch.
Nmap 4.20ALPHA3
o Added back Win32 support thanks to a patch by kx
o Fixed the English translation of TCP sequence difficulty reported by
Brandon Enright, and also removed fingerprint printing for 1st
generation fingerprints (I don't really want to deal with those
anymore). Thanks to Zhao Lei for writing this patch.
o Fix a problem which caused OS detection to be done in some cases
even if the user didn't request it. Thanks to Diman Todorov for the
fix.
Nmap 4.20ALPHA2
o Included nmap-os-db (the new OS detection DB) within the release.
Oops! Thanks to Brandon Enright (bmenrigh(a)ucsd.edu) for catching
this problem with 4.20ALPHA1.
o Added a fix for the crash in the new OS detection which would come
with the message "Probe doesn't exist! Probe type: 1. Probe subid: 1"
Nmap 4.20ALPHA1
o Integrated initial 2nd generation OS detection patch! The system is
documented at http://insecure.org/nmap/osdetect/ . Thanks to Zhao Lei
for helping with the coding and design.
o portlist.cc was refactored to remove some code duplication. Thanks
to Diman Todorov for the patch.
- bite the bullet and use GNU make, it's increasingly annoying to try
avoiding it
Changes:
- Added a dozens of more detailed SSH version detection signatures,
thanks to a SSH huge survey and integration effort by Doug Hoyte.
The results of his large-scale SSH scan are posted at
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2006/Apr-Jun/0393.html .
- Fixed the Nmap Makefile (actually Makefile.in) to correctly handle
include file dependencies. So if a .h file is changed, all of the
.cc files which depend on it will be recompiled. Thanks to Diman
Todorov (diman(a)xover.mud.at) for the patch.
- Fixed a compilation problem on solaris and possibly other platforms.
The error message looked like "No rule to make target `inet_aton.o',
needed by `libnbase.a'". Thanks to Matt Selsky
(selsky(a)columbia.edu) for the patch.
Fixes PR pkg/33806 from Gilles Dauphin.
- Applied a patch which helps with HP-UX compilation by linking in the
nm library (-lnm). Thanks to Zakharov Mikhail (zmey20000(a)yahoo.com)
for the patch.
- Added version detection probes for detecting the Nessus daemon.
Thanks to Adam Vartanian (flooey(a)gmail.com) for sending the patch.
Changes:
4.10:
=====
- Updated nmap-mac-prefixes to reflect the latest OUI DB from the IEEE
(http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt) as of May 31, 2006.
Also added a couple unregistered OUI's (for QEMU and Bochs)
suggested by Robert Millan (rmh(a)aybabtu.com).
- Fixed a bug which could cause false öpen" ports when doing a UDP
scan of localhost. This usually only happened when you scan tens of
thousands of ports (e.g. -p- option).
- Fixed a bug in service detection which could lead to a crash when
"--version-intensity 0" was used with a UDP scan. Thanks to Makoto
Shiotsuki (shio(a)st.rim.or.jp) for reporting the problem and Doug
Hoyte for producing a patch.
- Made some AIX and HP-UX portability fixes to Libdnet and NmapFE.
These were sent in by Peter O'Gorman
(nmap-dev(a)mlists.thewrittenword.com).
- When you do a UDP«CP scan, the TCP ports are now shown first (in
numerical order), followed by the UDP ports (also in order). This
contrasts with the old format which showed all ports together in
numerical order, regardless of protocol. This was at first a "bug",
but then I started thinking this behavior may be better. If you
have a preference for one format or the other, please post your
reasons to nmap-dev.
- Changed mass_dns system to print a warning if it can't find any
available DNS servers, but not quit like it used to. Thanks to Doug
Hoyte for the patch.
4.04BETA1:
==========
- Integrated all of your submissions (about a thousand) from the first
quarter of this year! Please keep 'em coming! The DB has increased
from 3,153 signatures representing 381 protocols in 4.03 to 3,441
signatures representing 401 protocols. No other tool comes close!
Many of the already existing match lines were improved too. Thanks
to Version Detection Czar Doug Hoyte for doing this.
- Nmap now allows multiple ingored port states. If a 65K-port scan
had, 64K filtered ports, 1K closed ports, and a few dozen open
ports, Nmap used to list the dozen open ones among a thousand lines
of closed ports. Now Nmap will give reports like "Not shown: 64330
filtered ports, 1000 closed ports" or "All 2051 scanned ports on
192.168.0.69 are closed (1051) or filtered (1000)", and omit all of
those ports from the table. Open ports are never ignored. XML
output can now have multiple <extraports> directive (one for each
ignored state). The number of ports in a single state before it is
consolidated defaults to 26 or more, though that number increases as
you add -v or -d options. With -d3 or higher, no ports will be
consolidated. The XML output should probably be augmented to give
the extraports directive 'ip', 'tcp', and 'udp' attributes which
specify the corresponding port numbers in the given state in the
same listing format as the nmaprun.scaninfo.services attribute, but
that part hasn't yet been implemented. If you absoultely need the
exact port numbers for each state in the XML, use -d3 for now.
- Nmap now ignores certain ICMP error message rate limiting (rather
than slowing down to accomidate it) in cases such as SYN scan where
an ICMP message and no response mean the same thing (port filtered).
This is currently only done at timing level Aggressive (-T4) or
higher, though we may make it the default if we don't hear problems
with it. In addition, the --defeat-rst-ratelimit option has been
added, which causes Nmap not to slow down to accomidate RST rate
limits when encountered. For a SYN scan, this may cause closed
ports to be labeled 'filtered' becuase Nmap refused to slow down
enough to correspond to the rate limiting. Learn more about this
new option at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/man/ . Thanks to Martin
Macok (martin.macok(a)underground.cz) for writing the patch that
these changes were based on.
- Moved my Nmap development environment to Visual C++ 2005 Express
edition. In typical "MS Upgrade Treadmill" fashion, Visual Studio
2003 users will no longer be able to compile Nmap using the new
solution files. The compilation, installation, and execution
instructions at
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/install/inst-windows.html have been
upgraded.
- Automated my Windows build system so that I just have to type a
single make command in the mswin32 directory. Thanks to Scott
Worley (smw(a)pobox.com>, Shane & Jenny Walters
(yfisaqt(a)waltersinamerica.com), and Alex Prinsier
(aphexer(a)mailhaven.com) for reading my appeal in the 4.03
CHANGELOG and assisting.
- Changed the PortList class to use much more efficient data
structures and algorithms which take advantage of Nmap-specific
behavior patterns. Thanks to Marek Majkowski
(majek(a)forest.one.pl) for the patch.
- Fixed a bug which prevented certain TCPÙDP scan commands, such as
"nmap -sSU -p1-65535 localhost" from scanning both TCP and UDP.
Instead they gave the error message "WARNING: UDP scan was requested,
but no udp ports were specified. Skipping this scan type". Thanks to
Doug Hoyte for the patch.
- Nmap has traditionally required you to specify -T* timing options
before any more granular options like --max-rtt-timeout, otherwise the
general timing option would overwrite the value from your more
specific request. This has now been fixed so that the more specific
options always have precendence. Thanks to Doug Hoyte for this patch.
- Fixed a couple possible memory leaks reported by Ted Kremenek
(kremenek(a)cs.stanford.edu) from the Stanford University sofware
static analysis lab ("Checker" project).
- Nmap now prints a warning when you specify a target name which
resolves to multiple IP addresses. Nmap proceeds to scan only the
first of those addresses (as it always has done). Thanks to Doug
Hoyte for the patch. The warning looks like this:
Warning: Hostname google.com resolves to 3 IPs. Using 66.102.7.99.
- Disallow --host-timeout values of less than 1500ms, print a warning
for values less than 15s.
- Changed all instances of inet_aton() into calls to inet_pton()
instead. This allowed us to remove inet_aton.c from nbase. Thanks to
KX (kxmail(a)gmail.com) for the patch.
- When debugging (-d) is specified, Nmap now prints a report on the
timing variables in use. Thanks to Doug Hoyte for the patch. The
report loos like this:
---------- Timing report ----------
hostgroups: min 1, max 100000
rtt-timeouts: init 250, min 50, max 300
scan-delay: TCP 5, UDP 1000
parallelism: min 0, max 0
max-retries: 2, host-timeout 900000
-----------------------------------
- Modified the WinPcap installer file to explicitly uninstall an
existing WinPcap (if you select that you wish to replace it) rather
than just overwriting the old version. Thanks to Doug Hoyte for
making this change.
- Added some P2P application ports to the nmap-services file. Thanks
to Martin Macok for the patch.
- The write buffer length increased in 4.03 was increased even further
when the debugging or verbosity levels are more than 2 (e.g. -d3).
Thanks to Brandon Enright (bmenrigh(a)ucsd.edu) for the patch. The
goal is to prevent you from ever seeing the fatal error:
"log_vwrite: write buffer not large enough -- need to increase"
- Added a note to the Nmap configure dragon that people sick of him
can submit their own ASCII art to nmap-dev@insecure.org . If you
are wondering WTF I am talking about, it is probably because only
most elite Nmap users -- the ones who compile from source on UNIX --
get to see the 'l33t ASCII Art.
Changes:
- Updated the LibPCRE build system to add the -fno-thread-jumps option
to gcc when compiling on the new Intel-based Apple Mac OS X systems.
Hopefully this resolves the version detection crashes that several
people have reported on such systems. Thanks to Kurt Grutzmacher
(grutz(a)jingojango.net) for sending the configure.ac patch.
- Increased a write buffer length to avoid Nmap from quitting with the
message "log_vwrite: write buffer not large enough -- need to
increase". Thanks to Dave (dmarcher(a)pobox.com) for reporting the
issue.
- Made some portability fixes to keep Nmap compiling with the newest
Visual Studio 2005. Thanks to KX (kxmail(a)gmail.com) for
suggesting them.
- Service fingerprints are now provided in the XML output whenever
they would appear in the interactive output (i.e. when a service
respons with data but is unrecognized). They are shown in a new
'servicefp' attribute to the 'service' tag. Thanks to Brandon Enright
(bmenrigh(a)ucsd.edu) for sending the patch.
- Improved the Windows build system -- mswin32/Makefile now takes care
of packaging Nmap and creating the installers once Visual Studio (GUI)
is done building the Release version of mswin32/nmap.sln. If someone
knows how to do this (build) step on the command line (using the
Makefile), please let me know. Or if you know how to at least make
'Release' (rather than Debug) the default configuration, that would be
valuable.
- WinPcap 3.1 binaries are now shipped in the Nmap tarball, along with
a customized (for Nmap) installer written by Doug Hoyte. That new
WinPcap installer is now used in the Nmap self-installer.
- Fixed (I hope) a problem where aggresive --min-parallelization
option values could cause Nmap to quit with the message "box(300, 100,
15) called (min,max,num)". Thanks to Richard van den Berg
(richard.vandenberg(a)ins.com) for reporting the problem.
- Fixed a rare crash bug thanks to a report and patch from Ganga
Bhavani (GBhavani(a)everdreamcorp.com)
Changes:
- Fixed a bug that would cause bogus reverse-DNS resolution on
big-endian machines. Thanks to Doug Hoyte, Seth Miller, Tony Doan,
and Andrew Lutomirsky for helping to debug and patch the problem.
- Fixed an important memory leak in the raw ethernet sending system.
Thanks to Ganga Bhavani (GBhavani(a)everdreamcorp.com) for
identifying the bug and sending a patch.
- Fixed --system-dns option so that --system_dns works too. Error
messages were changed to reflect the former (preferred) name.
Thanks to Sean Swift (sean.swift(a)bradford.gov.uk) and Peter
VanEeckhoutte (Peter.VanEeckhoutte(a)saraleefoodseurope.com) for
reporting the problem.
- Fixed a crash which would report this message:
"NmapOutputTable.cc:143: void NmapOutputTable::addItem(unsigned int,
unsigned int, bool, const char*, int): Assertion `row < numRows'
failed." Thanks to Jake Schneider (Jake.Schneider(a)dynetics.com)
for reporting and helping to debug the problem.
- Whenever Nmap sends packets with the SYN bit set (except for OS
detection), it now includes the maximum segment size (MSS) tcp
option with a value of 1460. This makes it stand out less as almost
all hosts set at least this option. Thanks to Juergen Schmidt
(ju(a)heisec.de) for the suggestion.
- Applied a patch for a Windows interface reading bug in the aDNS
subsystem from Doug Hoyte.
- Minor changes to recognize DragonFly BSD in configure
scripts. Thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger (joerg(a)britannica.bec.de)
for sending the patch.
- Fixed a minor bug in an error message starting with "eth_send of ARP
packet returned". Thanks to J.W. Hoogervorst
(J.W.Hoogervorst(a)uva.nl) for finding this.
Changes:
4.00:
=====
- Added the '?' command to the runtime interaction system. It prints
a list of accepted commands. Thanks to Andrew Lutomirski
(luto(a)myrealbox.com) for the patch.
3.9999:
=======
- Generated a new libpcre/configure to cope with changes in LibPCRE
6.4
- Updated nmap-mac-prefixes to reflect the latest OUI DB from the IEEE
(http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt)
- Updated nmap-protocols with the latest IEEE internet protocols
assignments (http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers).
- Updated the Nmap version number and related fields that MS Visual
Studio places in the binary. This was done by editing
mswin32/nmap.rc.
3.999:
======
- Added runtime interaction support to Windows, thanks to patches from
Andrew Lutomirski (luto(a)myrealbox.com) and Gisle Vanem
(giva(a)bgnett.no).
- Changed a couple lines of tcpip.cc (put certain IP header fields in
host byte order rather than NBO) to (hopefully) support Mac OS X on
Intel. Thanks to Kurt Grutzmacher (grutz(a)jingojango.net) for the
patch.
- Upgraded the included LibPCRE from version 6.3 to 6.4. There was a
report of version detection crashes on the new Intel-based MACs with
6.3.
- Fixed an issue in which the installer would malfunction in rare
issues when installing to a directory with spaces in it. Thanks to
Thierry Zoller (Thierry(a)Zoller.lu) for the report.
3.99:
=====
- Integrated all remaining 2005 service submissions. The DB now has
surpassed 3,000 signatures for the first time. There now are 3,153
signatures for 381 service protocols. Those protocols span the
gamut from abc, acap, afp, and afs to zebedee, zebra, and
zenimaging. It even covers obscure protocols such as http, ftp,
smtp, and ssh :). Thanks to Version Detection Czar Doug Hoyte for
his excellent work on this.
- Created a Windows executable installer using the open source NSIS
(Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). It handles Pcap installation,
registry performance changes, and adding Nmap to your cmd.exe
executable path. The installer source files are in mswin32/nsis/ .
Thanks to Google SoC student Bo Jiang (jiangbo(a)brandeis.edu) for
creating the initial version.
- Fixed a backward compatibility bug in which Nmap didn't recognize
the --min_rtt_timeout option (it only recognized the newly
hyphenated --min-rtt-timeout). Thanks to Joshua D. Abraham
(jabra(a)ccs.neu.edu) for the bug report.
- Fixed compilation to again work with gcc-derivatives such as
MingW. Thanks to Gisle Vanem (giva(a)bgnett.no) for sending the
patches
3.98BETA1:
==========
- Added run time interaction as documented at
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/man/man-runtime-interaction.html .
While Nmap is running, you can now press 'v' to increase verbosity,
'd' to increase the debugging level, 'p' to enable packet tracing,
or the capital versions (V,D,P) to do the opposite. Any other key
(such as enter) will print out a status message giving the estimated
time until scan completion. This only works on UNIX for now. Do we
have any volunteers to add Windows support? You would need to
change a handful of UNIX-specific termio calls with the Windows
equivalents. This feature was created by Paul Tarjan
(ptarjan(a)stanford.edu) as part of the Google Summer of Code.
- Reverse DNS resolution is now done in parallel rather than one at a
time. All scans of large networks (particularly list, ping and
just-a-few-ports scans) should benefit substantially from this
change. If you encounter any problems, please let us know. The new
--system_dns option was added so you can use the (slow) system
resolver if you prefer that for some reason. You can specify a
comma separated list of DNS server IP addresses for Nmap to use with
the new --dns_servers option. Otherwise, Nmap looks in
/etc/resolve.conf (UNIX) or the system registry (Windows) to obtain
the nameservers already configured for your system. This excellent
patch was written by Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.org).
- Added the --badsum option, which causes Nmap to use invalid TCP or
UDP checksums for packets sent to target hosts. Since virtually all
host IP stacks properly drop these packets, any responses received
are likely coming from a firewall or IDS that didn't bother to
verify the checksum. For more details on this technique, see
http://www.phrack.org/phrack/60/p60-0x0c.txt . The author of that
paper, Ed3f (ed3f(a)antifork.org), is also the author of this patch
(which I changed it a bit).
- The 26 Nmap commands that previously included an underscore
(--max_rtt_timeout, --send_eth, --host_timeout, etc.) have been
renamed to use a hyphen in the preferred format
(i.e. --max-rtt-timeout). Underscores are still supported for
backward compatibility.
- More excellent NmapFE patches from Priit Laes (amd(a)store20.com)
were applied to remove all deprecated GTK API calls. This also
eliminates the annoying Gtk-Critical and Gtk-WARNING runtime messages.
- Changed the way the __attribute__ compiler extension is detected so
that it works with the latest Fedora Core 4 updates (and perhaps other
systems). Thanks to Duilio Protti (dprotti(a)fceia.unr.edu.ar) for
writing the patch. The compilation error message this fixes was
usually something like: "nmap.o(.rodata+0x17c): undefined reference
to `__gthrw_pthread_cancel(unsigned long)"
- Added some exception handling code to mswin32/winfix.cc to prevent
Nmap from crashing mysteriously when you have WinPcap 3.0 or earlier
(instead of the required 3.1). It now prints an error message instead
asking you to upgrade, then reduces functionality to connect()-only
mode. I couldn't get it working with the C++ standard try/catch()
blocks, but as soon as I used the nonstandard MS conventions
(__try/__except(), everything worked fine. Shrug.
- Stripped the firewall API out of the libdnet included with Nmap
because Nmap doesn't use it anyway. This saves space and reduces the
likelihood of compilation errors and warnings.
- Modified the previously useless --noninteractive option so that it
deactivates runtime interaction.
3.96BETA1:
==========
- Added --max_retries option for capping the maximum number of
retransmissions the port scan engine will do. The value may be as low
as 0 (no retransmits). A low value can increase speed, though at the
risk of losing accuracy. The -T4 option now allows up to 6 retries,
and -T5 allows 2. Thanks to Martin Macok
(martin.macok(a)underground.cz) for writing the initial patch, which I
changed quite a bit. I also updated the docs to reflect this neat
new option.
- Many of the Nmap low-level timing options take a value in
milliseconds. You can now append an 's', 'm', or 'h' to the value
to give it in seconds, minutes, or hours instead. So you can specify
a 45 minute host timeout with --host_timeout 45m rather than specifying
--host_timeout 2700000 and hoping you did the math right and have the
correct number of zeros. This also now works for the
--min_rtt_timeout, --max_rtt_timeout, --initial_rtt_timeout,
--scan_delay, and --max_scan_delay options.
- Improved the NmapFE port to GTK2 so it better-conforms to the new
API and you don't get as many annoying messages in your terminal
window. GTK2 is prettier and more functional too. Thanks to Priit
Laes (amd(a)store20.com) for writing these
excellent patches.
- Fixed a problem which led to the error message "Failed to determine
dst MAC address for target" when you try to run Nmap using a
dialup/PPP adapter on Windows rather than a real ethernet card. Due
to Microsoft breaking raw sockets, Nmap no longer supports dialup
adapters, but it should now give you a clearer error message than
the "dst MAC address" nonsense.
- Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is now supported thanks to a patch to libdnet's
configure.in by Petr Salinger (Petr.Salinger(a)t-systems.cz).
- Tried to update to the latest autoconf only to find that there
hasn't been a new version in more than two years :(. I was able to
find new config.sub and config.guess files at
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/config/config/ , so I updated to
those.
- Fixed a problem with the -e option when run on Windows (or UNIX with
--send_eth) when run on an ethernet network against an external
(routed) host. You would get the message "NmapArpCache() can only
take IPv4 addresses. Sorry". Thanks to KX (kxmail(a)gmail.com) for
helping to track down the problem.
- Made some changes to allow source port zero scans (-g0). Nmap used
to refuse to do this, but now it just gives a warning that it may not
work on all systems. It seems to work fine on my Linux box. Thanks
to Bill Dale (bill_dale(a)bellsouth.net) for suggesting this feature.
- Made a change to libdnet so that Windows interfaces are listed as
down if they are disconnected, unplugged, or otherwise unavailable.
- Ceased including foreign translations in the Nmap tarball as they
take up too much space. HTML versions can be found at
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/docs.html , while XML and NROFF versions
are available from http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/man-xlate/ .
- Changed INSTALL and README-WIN32 files to mostly just reference the
new Nmap Install Guide at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/install/ .
- Included docs/nmap-man.xml in the tarball distribution, which is the
DocBook XML source for the Nmap man page. Patches to Nmap that are
user-visible should include patches to the man page XML source rather
than to the generated Nroff.
- Fixed Nmap so it doesn't crash when you ask it to resume a previous
scan, but pass in a bogus file rather than actual Nmap output. Thanks
to Piotr Sobolewski (piotr_sobolewski(a)o2.pl) for the fix.
Changes:
- Put Nmap on a diet, with changes to the core port scanning routine
(ultra_scan) to substantially reduce memory consumption, particularly
when tens of thousands of ports are scanned.
- Wrote a new man page from scratch. It is much more comprehensive
(more than twice as long) and (IMHO) better organized than the
previous one. Read it online at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/man/
or docs/nmap.1 from the Nmap distribution. Let me know if you have
any ideas for improving it.
- Wrote a new "help screen", which you get when running Nmap without
arguments. It is also reproduced in the man page and at
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap.usage.txt . I gave up trying
to fit it within a 25-line, 80-column terminal window. It is now 78
lines and summarizes all but the most obscure Nmap options.
- Removed foreign translations of the old man page from the
distribution. Included the following contributed translations
(nroff format) of the new man page:
Brazilian Portuguese by Lucien Raven (lucienraven(a)yahoo.com.br)
Portuguese (Portugal) by José Domingos (jd_pt(a)yahoo.com) and
Andreia Gaita (shana.ufie(a)gmail.com).
- Fixed a crash in IPID Idle scan. Thanks to Ron
(iago(a)valhallalegends.com>, Bakeman (bakeman(a)physics.unr.edu),
and others for reporting the problem.
- Applied some small fixes so that Nmap compiles with Visual C++
2005 Express, which is free from Microsoft at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/ . Thanks to KX
(kxmail(a)gmail.com) and Sina Bahram (sbahram(a)nc.rr.com)
- Version detection softmatches (when Nmap determines the service
protocol such as smtp but isn't able to determine the app name such as
Postfix) can now parse out the normal match line fields such as
hostname, device type, and extra info. For example, we may not know
what vendor created an sshd, but we can still parse out the protocol
number. This was a patch from Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.org).
- Fixed a problem which caused UDP version scanning to fail to print
the matched service. Thanks to Martin Macok
(martin.macok(a)underground.cz) for reporting the problem and Doug
Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.org) for fixing it.
- Made the version detection "ports" directive (in
nmap-service-probes) more comprehensive. This should speed up scans a
bit. The patch was done by Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.org).
- Integrated all of the September version detection fingerprint
submissions. This was done by Version Detection Czar Doug Hoyte
(doug(a)hcsw.org) and resulted in 86 new match lines. Please keep
those submissions coming!
- Fixed a bunch of typos and misspellings throughout the Nmap source
code (mostly in comments). This was a 625-line patch by Saint Xavier
(skyxav(a)skynet.be).
- Added the --webxml option, which does the same thing as
--stylesheet http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap.xsl , without
requiring you to remember the exact URL or type that whole thing.
- Fixed a possible aliasing problem in tcpip.cc by applying a patch sent in by
Gwenole Beauchesne (gbeauchesne(a)mandriva.com). This problem
shouldn't have had any effect on users since we already include the
-fno-strict-aliasing option whenever gcc 4 is detected, but it
brings us closer to being able to remove that option.
- Fixed a problem with the -S and -e options (spoof/set
source address, and set interface by name, respectively). The problem
report and a partial patch were sent by Richard Birkett
(richard(a)musicbox.net).
- Fixed a problem with the -S and option on Windows reporting "Failed
to resolve/decode supposed IPv4 source address". The -D (decoy)
option was probably broken on that platform too. Thanks to KX
(kxmail(a)gmail.com) for reporting the problem and tracking down a
potential solution.
- Added --thc option (undocumented)
- Modified libdnet-stripped/src/eth-bsd.c to allow for up to 128 bpf
devices rather than 32. This prevents errors like "Failed to open
ethernet interface (fxp0)" when there are more than 32 interface
aliases. Thanks to Krok (krok(a)void.ru) for reporting the problem
and even sending a patch.
- Fixed a minor syntax error in tcpip.h that was causing problems with
GCC 4.1. Thanks to Dirk Mueller (dmuell(a)gmx.net) for reporting
the problem and sending a fix.
- Define INET_ADDRSTRLEN in tcpip.h if the system doesn't define it
for us. This apparently aids compilation on Solaris 2.6 and 7.
Thanks to Albert Chin (nmap-hackers(a)mlists.thewrittenword.com) for
sending the patch..
- Fixed an inefficiency in RPC scan that could slow things down and
also sometimes resulted in the spurious warning message: Ünable to
find listening socket in get_rpc_results"
- Fixed a compilation problem on Mac OS X and perhaps other platforms
with a one-line fix to scan_engine.cc. Thanks to Felix Gröbert
(felix(a)groebert.org) for notifying me of the problem.
- Nmap now accepts target list files in Windows end-of-line format (\r\n)
as well as standard UNIX format (\n) on all platforms. Passing a
Windows style file to Nmap on UNIX didn't work before unless you ran
dos2unix first.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the command "nmap -sT -PT <targets>"
from working from a non-privileged user account. The -PT option
doesn't change default behavior in this case, but Nmap should (and now
does) allow it.
- Better handle ICMP type 3, code 0 (network unreachable) responses to
port scan packets. These are rarely seen when scanning hosts that
are actually online, but are still worth handling.
- Fixed a crash occured when the --exclude option was used with
netmasks on certain platforms. Thanks to Adam
(nmapuser(a)globalmegahost.com) for reporting the problem and to
Greg Darke (starstuff(a)optusnet.com.au) for sending a patch (I
modified the patch a bit to make it more efficient).
- Removed Identd scan support from NmapFE since Nmap no longer
supports it. Thanks to Jonathan Dieter (jdieter99(a)gmx.net) for the
patch.
- Fixed a bug that caused Nmap to crash if an nmap-service-probes file
was used which didn't contain the Exclude directive.
- Fixed a divide-by-zero crash when you specify rather bogus
command-line arguments (a TCP scan with zero tcp ports). Thanks to
Bart Dopheide (dopheide(a)fmf.nl) for identifying the problem and
sending a patch.
Changes:
3.93:
=====
o Modified Libpcap's configure.ac to compile with the
--fno-strict-aliasing option if gcc 4.X is used. This prevents when
said compiler is used. This was done for Nmap in 3.90, but is
apparently needed for pcap too. Thanks to Craig Humphrey
(Craig.Humphrey(a)chapmantripp.com) for the discovery.
o Patched libdnet to include sys/uio.h in src/tun-linux.c. This is
apparently necessary on some Glibc 2.1 systems. Thanks to Rob Foehl
(rwf(a)loonybin.net) for the patch.
o Fixed a crash which could occur when a ridiculously short
--host_timeout was specified on Windows (or on UNIX if --send_eth was
specified). Nmap now also prints a warning if you specify a
host_timeout of less than 1 second. Thanks to Ole Morten Grodaas
(grodaas(a)gmail.com) for discovering the problem.
3.91:
=====
o Fixed a crash on Windows when you -P0 scan an unused IP on a local
network (or a range that contains unused IPs). This could also
happen on UNIX if you specified the new --send_eth option. Thanks
to Jim Carras (JFCECL(a)engr.psu.edu) for reporting the problem.
o Fixed compilation on OpenBSD by applying a patch from Okan Demirmen
(okan(a)demirmen.com), who maintains Nmap in the OpenBSD Ports
collection.
o Updated nmap-mac-prefixes to include OUIs assigned by the IEEE since
April.
o Updated the included libpcre (used for version detection) from
version 4.3 to 6.3. A libpcre securty issue was fixed in 6.3, but
that issue never affected Nmap.
o Updated the included libpcap from 0.8.3 to 0.9.3. I also changed
the directory name in the Nmap tarball from libpcap-possiblymodified
to just libpcap. As usual, the modifications are described in the
NMAP_MODIFICATIONS in that directory.
3.90:
=====
o Added the ability for Nmap to send and properly route raw ethernet
packets cointaining IP datagrams rather than always sending the
packets via raw sockets. This is particularly useful for Windows,
since Microsoft has disabled raw socket support in XP for no good
reason. Nmap tries to choose the best method at runtime based on
platform, though you can override it with the new --send_eth and
--send_ip options.
o Added ARP scanning (-PR). Nmap can now send raw ethernet ARP requests to
determine whether hosts on a LAN are up, rather than relying on
higher-level IP packets (which can only be sent after a successful
ARP request and reply anyway). This is much faster and more
reliable (not subject to IP-level firewalling) than IP-based probes.
The downside is that it only works when the target machine is on the
same LAN as the scanning machine. It is now used automatically for
any hosts that are detected to be on a local ethernet network,
unless --send_ip was specified. Example usage: nmap -sP -PR
192.168.0.0/16 .
o Added the --spoof_mac option, which asks Nmap to use the given MAC
address for all of the raw ethernet frames it sends. The MAC given
can take several formats. If it is simply the string "0", Nmap
chooses a completely random MAC for the session. If the given
string is an even number of hex digits (with the pairs optionally
separated by a colon), Nmap will use those as the MAC. If less than
12 hex digits are provided, Nmap fills in the remainder of the 6
bytes with random values. If the argument isn't a 0 or hex string,
Nmap looks through the nmap-mac-prefixes to find a vendor name
containing the given string (it is case insensitive). If a match is
found, Nmap uses the vendor's OUI (3-byte prefix) and fills out the
remaining 3 bytes randomly. Valid --spoof_mac argument examples are
"Apple", "0", "01:02:03:04:05:06", "deadbeefcafe", "0020F2", and
"Cisco".
o Applied an enormous nmap-service-probes (version detection) update
from SoC student Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.org). Version 3.81 had
1064 match lines covering 195 service protocols. Now we have 2865
match lines covering 359 protocols! So the database size has nearly
tripled! This should make your -sV scans quicker and more
accurate. Thanks also go to the (literally) thousands of you who
submitted service fingerprints. Keep them coming!
o Applied a massive OS fingerprint update from Zhao Lei
(zhaolei(a)gmail.com). About 350 fingerprints were added, and many
more were updated. Notable additions include Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger),
OpenBSD 3.7, FreeBSD 5.4, Windows Server 2003 SP1, Sony AIBO (along
with a new "robotic pet" device type category), the latest Linux 2.6
kernels Cisco routers with IOS 12.4, a ton of VoIP devices, Tru64
UNIX 5.1B, new Fortinet firewalls, AIX 5.3, NetBSD 2.0, Nokia IPSO
3.8.X, and Solaris 10. Of course there are also tons of new
broadband routers, printers, WAPs and pretty much any other device
you can coax an ethernet cable (or wireless card) into!
o Added 'leet ASCII art to the confugrator! ARTIST NOTE: If you think
the ASCII art sucks, feel free to send me alternatives. Note that
only people compiling the UNIX source code get this. (ASCII artist
unknown).
o Added OS, device type, and hostname detection using the service
detection framework. Many services print a hostname, which may be
different than DNS. The services often give more away as well. If
Nmap detects IIS, it reports an OS family of "Windows". If it sees
HP JetDirect telnetd, it reports a device type of "printer". Rather
than try to combine TCP/IP stack fingerprinting and service OS
fingerprinting, they are both printed. After all, they could
legitimately be different. An IP that gives a stack fingerprint
match of "Linksys WRT54G broadband router" and a service fingerprint
of Windows based on Kazaa running is likely a common NAT setup rather
than an Nmap mistake.
o Nmap on Windows now compiles/links with the new WinPcap 3.1
header/lib files. So please upgrade to 3.1 from
http://www.winpcap.org before installing this version of Nmap.
While older versions may still work, they aren't supported with Nmap.
o The official Nmap RPM files are now compiled statically for better
compatability with other systems. X86_64 (AMD Athlon64/Opteron)
binaries are now available in addition to the standard i386. NmapFE
RPMs are no longer distributed by Insecure.Org.
o Nmap distribution signing has changed. Release files are now signed
with a new Nmap Project GPG key (KeyID 6B9355D0). Fyodor has also
generated a new key for himself (KeyID 33599B5F). The Nmap key has
been signed by Fyodor's new key, which has been signed by Fyodor's
old key so that you know they are legit. The new keys are available
at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap_gpgkeys.txt , as
docs/nmap_gpgkeys.txt in the Nmap source tarball, and on the public
keyserver network. Here are the fingerprints:
pub 1024D/33599B5F 2005-04-24
Key fingerprint = BB61 D057 C0D7 DCEF E730 996C 1AF6 EC50 3359 9B5F
uid Fyodor <fyodor@insecure.org>
sub 2048g/D3C2241C 2005-04-24
pub 1024D/6B9355D0 2005-04-24
Key fingerprint = 436D 66AB 9A79 8425 FDA0 E3F8 01AF 9F03 6B93 55D0
uid Nmap Project Signing Key (http://www.insecure.org/)
sub 2048g/A50A6A94 2005-04-24
o Fixed a crash problem related to non-portable varargs (vsnprintf)
usage. Reports of this crash came from Alan William Somers
(somers(a)its.caltech.edu) and Christophe (chris.branch(a)gmx.de).
This patch was prevalent on Linux boxes running an Opteron/Athlon64
CPU in 64-bit mode.
o Fixed crash when Nmap is compiled using gcc 4.X by adding the
--fno-strict-aliasing option when that compiler is detected. Thanks
to Greg Darke (starstuff(a)optusnet.com.au) for discovering that
this option fixes (hides) the problem and to Duilio J. Protti
(dprotti(a)flowgate.net) for writing the configure patch to detect
gcc 4 and add the option. A better fix is to identify and rewrite
lines that violate C99 alias rules, and we are looking into that.
o Added "rarity" feature to Nmap version detection. This causes
obscure probes to be skipped when they are unlikely to help. Each
probe now has a "rarity" value. Probes that detect dozens of
services such as GenericLines and GetRequest have rarity values of
1, while the WWWOFFLEctrlstat and mydoom probes have a rarity of 9.
When interrogating a port, Nmap always tries probes registered to
that port number. So even WWWOFFLEctrlstat will be tried against
port 8081 and mydoom will be tried against open ports between 3127
and 3198. If none of the registered ports find a match, Nmap tries
probes that have a rarity less than or equal to its current
intensity level. The intensity level defaults to 7 (so that most of
the probes are done). You can set the intensity level with the new
--version_intensity option. Alternatively, you can just use
--version_light or --version_all which set the intensity to 2 (only
try the most important probes and ones registered to the port
number) and 9 (try all probes), respectively. --version_light is
much faster than default version detection, but also a bit less
likely to find a match. This feature was designed and implemented
by Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.org).
o Added a "fallback" feature to the nmap-service-probes database.
This allows a probe to "inherit" match lines from other probes. It
is currently only used for the HTTPOptions, RTSPRequest, and
SSLSessionReq probes to inherit all of the match lines from
GetRequest. Some servers don't respond to the Nmap GetRequest (for
example because it doesn't include a Host: line) but they do respond
to some of those other 3 probes in ways that GetRequest match lines
are general enough to match. The fallback construct allows us to
benefit from these matches without repeating hundreds of signatures
in the file. This is another feature designed and implemented
by Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.org).
o Fixed crash with certain --excludefile or
--exclude arguments. Thanks to Kurt Grutzmacher
(grutz(a)jingojango.net) and pijn trein (ptrein(a)gmail.com) for
reporting the problem, and to Duilio J. Protti
(dprotti(a)flowgate.net) for debugging the issue and sending the
patch.
o Updated random scan (ip_is_reserved()) to reflect the latest IANA
assignments. This patch was sent in by Felix Groebert
(felix(a)groebert.org).
o Included new Russian man page translation by
locco_bozi(a)Safe-mail.net
o Applied pach from Steve Martin (smartin(a)stillsecure.com) which
standardizes many OS names and corrects typos in nmap-os-fingerprints.
o Fixed a crash found during certain UDP version scans. The crash was
discovered and reported by Ron (iago(a)valhallalegends.com) and fixed
by Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.com).
o Added --iflist argument which prints a list of system interfaces and
routes detected by Nmap.
o Fixed a protocol scan (-sO) problem which led to the error message:
"Error compiling our pcap filter: syntax error". Thanks to Michel
Arboi (michel(a)arboi.fr.eu.org) for reporting the problem.
o Fixed an Nmap version detection crash on Windows which led to the
error message "Unexpected error in NSE_TYPE_READ callback. Error
code: 10053 (Unknown error)". Thanks to Srivatsan
(srivatsanp(a)adventnet.com) for reporting the problem.
o Fixed some misspellings in docs/nmap.xml reported by Tom Sellers
(TSellers(a)trustmark.com).
o Applied some changes from Gisle Vanem (giva(a)bgnett.no) to make
Nmap compile with Cygwin.
o XML "osmatch" element now has a "line" attribute giving the
reference fingerprint line number in nmap-os-fingerprints.
o Added a distcc probes and a bunch of smtp matches from Dirk Mueller
(mueller(a)kde.org) to nmap-service-probes. Also added AFS version
probe and matches from Lionel Cons (lionel.cons(a)cern.ch). And
even more probes and matches from Martin Macok
(martin.macok(a)underground.cz)
o Fixed a problem where Nmap compilation would use header files from
the libpcap included with Nmap even when it was linking to a system
libpcap. Thanks to Solar Designer (solar(a)openwall.com) and Okan
Demirmen (okan(a)demirmen.com) for reporting the problem.
o Added configure option --with-libpcap=included to tell Nmap to use
the version of libpcap it ships with rather than any that may already be
installed on the system. You can still use --with-libpcap=[dir] to
specify that a system libpcap be installed rather than the shipped
one. By default, Nmap looks at both and decides which one is likely
to work best. If you are having problems on Solaris, try
--with-libpcap=included .
o Changed the --no-stylesheet option to --no_stylesheet to be
consistant with all of the other Nmap options. Though I'm starting to
like hyphens a bit better than underscores and may change all of the
options to use hyphens instad at some point.
o Added "Exclude" directive to nmap-service-probes grammar which
causes version detection to skip listed ports. This is helpful for
ports such as 9100. Some printers simply print any data sent to
that port, leading to pages of HTTP requests, SMB queries, X Windows
probes, etc. If you really want to scan all ports, specify
--allports. This patch came from Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.org).
o Added a stripped-down and heavily modified version of Dug Song's
libdnet networking library (v. 1.10). This helps with the new raw
ethernet features. My (extensive) changes are described in
libdnet-stripped/NMAP_MODIFICATIONS
o Removed WinIP library (and all Windows raw sockets code) since MS
has gone and broken raw sockets. Maybe packet receipt via raw
sockets will come back at some point. As part of this removal, the
Windows-specific --win_help, --win_list_interfaces, --win_norawsock,
--win_forcerawsock, --win_nopcap, --win_nt4route, --win_noiphlpapi,
and --win_trace options have been removed.
o Chagned the interesting ports array from a 65K-member array of
pointers into an STL list. This noticeable reduces memory usage in
some cases, and should also give a slight runtime performance
boost. This patch was written by Paul Tarjan (ptarjan(a)gmail.com).
o Removed the BSDFIX/BSDUFIX macros. The underlying bug in
FreeBSD/NetBSD is still there though. When an IP packet is sent
through a raw socket, these platforms require the total length and
fragmentation offset fields of an IP packet to be in host byte order
rather than network byte order, even though all the other fields
must be in NBO. I believe that OpenBSD fixed this a while back.
Other platforms, such as Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows take
all of the fields in network byte order. While I removed the macro,
I still do the munging where required so that Nmap still works on
FreeBSD.
o Integrated many nmap-service-probes changes from Bo Jiang
(jiangbo(a)brandeis.edu)
o Added a bunch of RPC numbers from nmap-rpc maintainer Eilon Gishri
(eilon(a)aristo.tau.ac.il)
o Added some new RPC services to nmap-rpc thanks to a patch from
vlad902 (vlad902(a)gmail.com).
o Fixed a bug where Nmap would quit on Windows whenever it encountered
a raw scan of localhost (including the local ethernet interface
address), even when that was just one address out of a whole network
being scanned. Now Nmap just warns that it is skipping raw scans when
it encounters the local IP, but continues on to scan the rest of the
network. Raw scans do not currently work against local IP addresses
because Winpcap doesn't support reading/writing localhost interfaces
due to limitations of Windows.
o The OS fingerprint is now provided in XML output if debugging is
enabled (-d) or verbosity is at least 2 (-v -v). This patch was
sent by Okan Demirmen (okan(a)demirmen.com)
o Fixed the way tcp connect scan (-sT) respons to ICMP network
unreachable responses (patch by Richard Moore
(rich(a)westpoint.ltd.uk).
o Update random host scan (-iR) to support the latest IANA-allocated
ranges, thanks to patch by Chad Loder (cloder(a)loder.us).
o Updated GNU shtool (a helper program used during 'make install' to
version 2.0.2, which fixes a predictable temporary filename
weakness discovered by Eric Raymond.
o Removed addport element from XML DTD, since it is no longer used
(sugested by Lionel Cons (lionel.cons(a)cern.ch)
o Added new --privileged command-line option and NMAP_PRIVILEGED
environmental variable. Either of these tell Nmap to assume that
the user has full privileges to execute raw packet scans, OS
detection and the like. This can be useful when Linux kernel
capabilities or other systems are used that allow non-root users to
perform raw packet or ethernet frame manipulation. Without this
flag or variable set, Nmap bails on UNIX if geteuid() is
nonzero.
o Changed the RPM spec file so that if you define "static" to 1 (by
passing --define "static 1" to rpmbuild), static binaries are built.
o Fixed Nmap compilation on Solaris x86 thanks to a patch from Simon
Burr (simes(a)bpfh.net).
o ultra_scan() now sets pseudo-random ACK values (rather than 0) for
any TCP scans in which the initial probe packet has the ACK flag set.
This would be the ACK, Xmas, Maimon, and Window scans.
o Updated the Nmap version number, description, and similar fields
that MS Visual Studio places in the binary. This was done by editing
mswin32/nmap.rc as suggested by Chris Paget (chrisp@ngssoftware.com)
o Fixed Nmap compilation on DragonFly BSD (and perhaps some other
systems) by applying a short patch by Joerg Sonnenberger which omits
the declaration of errno if it is a #define.
o Fixed an integer overflow that prevented Nmap from scanning
2,147,483,648 hosts in one expression (e.g. 0.0.0.0/1). Problem
noted by Justin Cranford (jcranford(a)n-able.com). While /1 scans
are now possible, don't expect them to finish during your bathroom
break. No matter how constipated you are.
o Increased the buffer size allocated for fingerprints to prevent Nmap
from running out and quitting (error message: "Assertion
`servicefpalloc - servicefplen > 8' failed". Thanks to Mike Hatz
(mhatz(a)blackcat.com) for the report. [ Actually this was done in a
previous version, but I forgot which one ]
o Changed from CVS to Subversion source control system (which
rocks!). Neither repository is public (I'm paranoid because both CVS
and SVN have had remotely exploitable security holes), so the main
change users will see is that "Id" tags in file headers use the SVN
format for version numbering and such.
o Fixed a memory leak that would generally consume several hundred
bytes per down host scanned. While the effect for most scans is
negligible, it was overwhelming when Scott Carlson
(Scott.Carlson(a)schwab.com) tried to scan 24 million IPs
(10.0.0.0/8). Thanks to him for reporting the problem.
o Fixed a bug in ACK scan that could cause Nmap to crash with the
message "Unexpected port state: 6" in some cases. Thanks to Glyn
Geoghegan (glyng(a)corsaire.com) for reporting the problem.
o Change IP protocol scan (-sO) so that a response from the target
host in any protocol at all will prove that protocol is open. As
before, no response means "open|filtered", an ICMP protocol
unreachable means "closed", and most other ICMP error messages mean
"filered".
o Changed IP protocol scan (-sO) so that it sends valid ICMP, TCP, and
UDP headers when scanning protocols 1, 6, and 17, respectively. An
emtpy IP header is still sent for all other protocols. This should
prevent the error messages such as "sendto in send_ip_packet:
sendto(3, packet, 20, 0, 192.31.33.7, 16) => Operation not
permitted" that Linux (and perhaps other systems) would give when
they try to interpret the raw packet. This also makes it more
likely that these protocols will elicit a response, proving that the
protocol is "open".
o Null, FIN, Maimon, and Xmas scans now mark ports as "open|filtered"
instead of "open" when they fail to receive any response from the
target port. After all, it could just as easily be filtered as open.
This is the same change that was made to UDP scan in 3.70. Also as
with UDP scan, adding version detection (-sV) will change the state
from open|filtered to open if it confirms that they really are open.
o Fixed a crash on Windows systems that don't include the iphlpapi
DLL. This affects Win95 and perhaps other variants. Thanks to Ganga
Bhavani (GBhavani(a)everdreamcorp.com) for reporting the problem and
sending the patch.
o Ensured that the device type, os vendor, and os family OS
fingerprinting classification values are scrubbed for XML compliance
in the XML output. Thanks to Matthieu Verbert
(mve(a)zurich.ibm.com) for reporting the problem and sending a patch.
o Changed to Nmap XML DTD to use the same xmloutputversion (1.01) as
newer versions of Nmap. Thanks to Laurent Estieux
(laurent.estieux(a)free.fr) for reporting the problem.
Changes:
- Implemented a huge OS fingerprint database update. The number of
signatures have increased more than 20% to 1,353 and many of the
existing ones are much improved. Notable updates include the fourth
edition of Bell Lab's Plan9, Grandstream's BugeTone 101 IP Phone,
and Bart's Network Boot Disk 2.7 (which runs MS-DOS). Oh, and Linux
kernels up to 2.6.8, dozens of new Windows fingerprints including XP
SP2, the latest Longhorn warez, and many modified Xboxes, OpenBSD
3.6, NetBSD up to 2.0RC4, Apple's AirPort Express WAP and OS X 10.3.3
(Panther) release, Novell Netware 6.5, FreeBSD 5.3-BETA, a bunch of
Linksys and D-Link consumer junk, the latest Cisco IOS 12.2
releases, a ton of miscellaneous broadband routers and printers, and
much more.
- Updated nmap-mac-prefixes with the latest OUIs from the IEEE.
[ http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt ]
- Updated nmap-protocols with the latest IP protocols from IANA
[ http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers ]
- Added a few new Nmap version detection signatures thanks to a patch
from Martin Maèok (martin.macok(a)underground.cz).
- Fixed a crash problem in the Windows version of Nmap, thanks to a
patch from Ganga Bhavani GBhavani(a)everdreamcorp.com).
- Fixed Windows service scan crashes that occur with the error message
"Unexpected nsock_loop error. Error code 10022 (Unknown error)". It
turns out that Windows does not allow select() calls with all three
FD sets empty. Lame. The Linux select() man page even suggests
calling "select with all three sets empty, n zero, and a non-null
timeout as a fairly portable way to sleep with subsecond precision."
Thanks to Gisle Vanem (giva(a)bgnett.no) for debugging help.
- Added --max_scan_delay parameter. Nmap will sometimes increase the
delay itself when it detects many dropped packets. For example,
Solaris systems tend to respond with only one ICMP port unreachable
packet per second during a UDP scan. So Nmap will try to detect
this and lower its rate of UDP probes to one per second. This can
provide more accurate results while reducing network congestion, but
it can slow the scans down substantially. By default (with no -T
options specified), Nmap allows this delay to grow to one second per
probe. This option allows you to set a lower or higher maximum.
The -T4 and -T5 scan modes now limit the maximum scan delay for TCP
scans to 10 and 5 ms, respectively.
- Fixed a bug that prevented RPC scan (-sR) from working for UDP ports
unless service detection (-sV) was used. -sV is still usually a
better approach than -sR, as the latter ONLY handles RPC. Thanks to
Stephen Bishop (sbishop(a)idsec.co.uk) for reporting the problem and
sending a patch.
- Fixed nmap_fetchfile() to better find custom versions of data files
such as nmap-services. Note that the implicitly read directory
should be ~/.nmap rather than ~/nmap . So you may have to move any
customized files you now have in ~/nmap . Thanks to nnposter
(nnposter(a)users.sourceforge.net) for reporting the problem and
sending a patch.
- Changed XML output so that the MAC address [address] element comes
right after the IPv4/IPv6 [address] element. Apparently this is
needed to comply with the DTD (
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap.dtd ). Thanks to Adam Morgan
(adam.morgan(a)Q1Labs.com) and Florian Ebner
(Florian.Ebner(a)e-bros.de) for the problem reports.
- Fixed an error in the Nmap RPM spec file reported by Pascal Trouvin
(pascal.trouvin(a)wanadoo.fr)
- Fixed a timing problem in which a specified large --send_delay would
sometimes be reduced to 1 second during a scan. Thanks to Martin
Macok (martin.macok(a)underground.cz) for reporting the problem.
- Fixed a timing problem with sneaky and paranoid modes (-T1 and -T0)
which would cause Nmap to continually scan the same port and never
hit other ports when scanning certain firewalled hosts. Thanks to
Curtis Doty (Curtis(a)GreenKey.net) for reporting the problem.
- Fixed a bug in the build system that caused most Nmap subdirectories
to be configured twice. Changing the variable holding the name of
subdirs from $subdirs to $nmap_cfg_subdirs resolved the problem --
configure must have been using that variable name for its own internal
operations. Anyway, this should reduce compile time significantly.
- Made a trivial change to nsock/src/nsock_event.c to work around a "a
bug in GCC 3.3.1 on FreeBSD/sparc64". I found the patch by digging
around the FreeBSD ports tree repository. It would be nice if the
FreeBSD Nmap port maintainers would report such things to me, rather
than fixing it in their own Nmap tree and then applying the patch to
every future version. On the other hand, they deserve some sort of
"most up-to-date" award. I stuck Nmap 3.71-PRE1 in the dist
directory for a few people to test, and made no announcement or
direct link. The FreeBSD crew found it and upgraded anyway :). The
gcc-workaround patch was apparently submitted to the FreeBSD folks
by Marius Strobl (marius(a)alchemy.franken.de).
- Fixed (I hope) an OS detection timing issue which would in some
cases lead to the warning that "insufficient responses for TCP
sequencing (3), OS detection may be less accurate." Thanks to Adam
Kerrison (adam(a)tideway.com) for reporting the problem.
- Modified the warning given when files such as nmap-services exist in
both the compiled in NMAPDATADIR and the current working directory.
That message should now only appear once and is more clear.
- Fixed ping scan subsystem to work a little bit better when
--scan_delay (or some of the slower -T templates which include a scan
delay) is specified. Thanks to Shahid Khan (khan(a)asia.apple.com)
for suggestions.
- Taught connect() scan to properly interpret ICMP protocol
unreachable messages. Thanks to Alan Bishoff
(abishoff(a)arc.nasa.gov) for the report.
- Improved the nmapfe.desktop file to better comply with standards.
Thanks to Stephane Loeuillet (stephane.loeuillet(a)tiscali.fr) for
sending the patch.
- update DESCR
Notable changes:
- Integrated a ton of service fingerprints, increasing the number of
signatures more than 50%. It has now exceeded 1,000 for the first
time, and represents 180 unique service protocols from acap, afp,
and aim to xml-rpc, zebedee, and zebra.
- Implemented a huge OS fingerprint update. The number of
fingerprints has increased more than 13% to 1,121. This is the first
time it has exceeded 1000. Notable updates include Linux 2.6.0, Mac
OS X up to 10.3.2 (Panther), OpenBSD 3.4 (normal and pf "scrub all"),
FreeBSD 5.2, the latest Windows Longhorn warez, and Cisco PIX 6.3.3.
As usual, there are a ton of new consumer devices from ubiquitous
D-Link, Linksys, and Netgear broadband routers to a number of new IP
phones including the Cisco devices commonly used by Vonage. Linksys
has apparently gone special-purpose with some of their devices, such
as their WGA54G "Wireless Game Adapter" and WPS54GU2 wireless print
server. A cute little MP3 player called the Rio Karma was submitted
multiple times and I also received and integrated fingerprints for the
Handspring Treo 600 (PalmOS).
- Applied some man page fixes from Eric S. Raymond
(esr(a)snark.thyrsus.com).
- Added version scan information to grepable output between the last
two '/' delimiters (that space was previously unused). So the format
is now "portnum/state/protocol/owner/servicename/rpcinfo/versioninfo"
as in "53/open/tcp//domain//ISC Bind 9.2.1/" and
"22/open/tcp//ssh//OpenSSH 3.5p1 (protocol 1.99)/". Thanks to
MadHat (madhat(a)unspecific.com) for sending a patch (although I did
it differently). Note that any '/' characters in the
version (or owner) field are replaced with '|' to keep awk/cut
parsing simple. The service name field has been updated so that it
is the same as in normal output (except for the same sort of
escaping discussed above).
- Integrated an Oracle TNS service probe and match lines contributed
by Frank Berger (fm.berger(a)gmx.de). New probe contributions are
always appreciated!
- Fixed a crash that could happen during SSL version detection due to
SSL session ID cache reference counting issues.
- Applied patch to nmap XML dtd (nmap.dtd) from Mario Manno
(mm(a)koeln.ccc.de). This accounts for the new version scanning
functionality.
- Upgraded to Autoconf 2.59 (from 2.57). This should help HP-UX
compilation problems reported by Petter Reinholdtsen
(pere(a)hungry.com) and may have other benefits as well.
- Made Ident-scan (-I) limits on the length and type of responses
stricter so that rogue servers can't flood your screen with 1024
characters. The new length limit is 32. Thanks to Tom Rune Flo
(tom(a)x86.no) for the suggestion and a patch.
- Fingerprints for unrecognized services can now be a bit longer to
avoid truncating as much useful response information. While the
fingerprints can be longer now, I hope they will be less frequent
because of all the newly recognized services in this version.
- The nmap-service-probes "match" directive can now take a service
name like "ssl/vmware-auth". The service will then be reported as
vmware-auth (or whatever follows "ssl/") tunneled by SSL, yet Nmap
won't actually bother initiating an SSL connection. This is useful
for SSL services which can be fully recognized without the overhead
of making an SSL connection.
- Version scan now chops commas and whitespace from the end of
vendorproductname, version, and info fields. This makes it easier to
write templates incorporating lists. For example, the tcpmux service
(TCP port 1) gives a list of supported services separated by CRLF.
Nmap uses this new feature to print them comma separated without
having an annoying trailing comma as so (linewrapped):
match tcpmux m|^(sgi_[-.\w]+\r\n([-.\w]+\r\n)*)$|
v/SGI IRIX tcpmux//Available services: $SUBST(1, "\r\n", ",")/
Changes since 3.45:
===================
o Integrated an enormous number of version detection service
submissions. The database has almost doubled in size to 663
signatures representing the following 130 services:
3dm-http afp apcnisd arkstats bittorent chargen citrix-ica
cvspserver cvsup dantzretrospect daytime dict directconnect domain
echo eggdrop exec finger flexlm font-service ftp ftp-proxy gnats
gnutella-http hddtemp hp-gsg http http-proxy hylafax icecast ident
imap imaps imsp ipp irc ircbot irc-proxy issrealsecure jabber
kazaa-http kerberos-sec landesk-rc ldap linuxconf lmtp lotusnotes
lpd lucent-fwadm meetingmaker melange microsoft-ds microsoft-rdp
mldonkey msactivesync msdtc msrpc ms-sql-m mstask mud mysql
napster ncacn_http ncp netbios-ns netbios-ssn netrek netsaint
netstat netwareip networkaudio nntp nsclient nsunicast ntop-http
omniback oracle-mts oracle-tns pcanywheredata pksd pmud pop2 pop3
pop3s poppass postgresql powerchute printer qotd redcarpet
rendezvous rlogind rpc rsync rtsp sdmsvc sftp shell shivahose
sieve slimp3 smtp smux snpp sourceoffice spamd ssc-agent ssh ssl
svrloc symantec-av symantec-esm systat telnet time tinyfw upnp
uucp veritasnetbackup vnc vnc-http vtun webster whois wins
winshell wms X11 xfce zebra
o Added the ability to execute "helper functions" in version
templates, to help clean up/manipulate data captured from a server
response. The first defined function is P() which includes only
printable characters in a captured string. The main impetus for
this is to deal with unicode strings like
"W\0O\0R\0K\0G\0R\0O\0U\0P\0" that many MS protocols send. Nmap can
now decode that into "WORKGROUP".
o Added SUBST() helper function, which replaces strings in matched
appname/version/extrainfo strings with something else. For example,
VanDyke Vshell gives a banner that includes
"SSH-2\.0-VShell_2_2_0_528". A substring match is used to pick out
the string "2_2_0_528", and then SUBST(1,"_",".") is called on that
match to form the version number 2.2.0.528.
o If responses to a probe fail to match any of the registered match
strings for that probe, Nmap will now try against the registered "null
probe" match strings. This helps in the case that the NULL probe
initially times out (perhaps because of initial DNS lookup) but the
banner appears in later responses.
o Applied some portability fixes (particularly for OpenBSD) from Chad
Loder (cloder(a)loder.us), who is also now the OpenBSD Nmap port
maintainer.
o Applied some portability fixes from Marius Strobl
(marius(a)alchemy.franken.de).
o The tarball distribution of Nmap now strips the binary at install
time thanks to a patch from Marius Strobl
(marius(a)alchemy.franken.de).
o Fixed a problem related to building Nmap on systems that lack PCRE
libs (and thus have to use the ones included by Nmap). Thanks to Remi
Denis-Courmont (deniscr6(a)cti.ecp.fr) for the repot and patch.
o Alphebetized the service names in each Probe section in
nmap-service-probes (makes them easier to find and add to).
o Fixed the problem several people reported where Nmap would quit with
a "broken pipe" error during service scanning. Thanks to Jari Ruusu
(jari.ruusu(a)pp.inet.fi) for sending a patch. The actual error
message was "Unexpected error in NSE_TYPE_READ callback. Error
code: 32 (Broken pipe)"
o Fixed protocol scan (-sO), which I had broken when adding the new
output table format. It would complain "NmapOutputTable.cc:128:
failed assertion `row < numRows'". Thanks to Matt Burnett
(marukka(a)mac.com) for notifying me of the problem.
o Upgraded Libpcap to the latest tcpdump.org version (0.7.2) from
0.7.1
o Applied a patch from Peter Marschall (peter(a)adpm.de) which adds
version detection support to nmapfe.
o Fixed a problem with XML output being invalid when service detection
was done on SSL-tunneled ports. Thanks to the several people who
reported this - it means that folks are actually using the XML
output :).
o Fixed (I hope) some Solaris Sune ONE compiler compilation problems
reported (w/patches) by Mikael Mannstrom (candyman(a)penti.org)
o Fixed the --with-openssl configure option for people who have
OpenSSL installed in a path not automatically found by their
compilers. Thanks to Marius Strobl (marius(a)alchemy.franken.de) for
the patch.
o Made some portability changes for HP-UX and possibly other types of
machines, thanks to a patch from Petter Reinholdtsen (pere(a)hungry.com)
o Applied a patch from Matt Selsky (selsky@columbia.edu) which fixes
compilation on some Solaris boxes, and maybe others. The error said
"cannot compute sizeof (char)"
o Applied some patches from the NetBSD ports tree that Hubert Feyrer
(hubert.feyrer(a)informatik.fh-regensburg.de) sent me. The NetBSD
Nmap ports page is at http://www.NetBSD.org/packages/net/nmap/ .
o Applied some Makefile patches from the FreeBSD ports tree that I
found at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/security/nmap/files/
assumed incorrectly that if you are using Linux, that you want to
use the nmap-provided libpcap code; but the libpcap package works
fine. (Okay'd by salo.)
Also closes PR pkg/22845 by Adrian Portelli.
Changes:
3.45:
=====
- Added new HTTPOptions and RTSPRequest probes suggested by MadHat
(madhat(a)unspecific.com)
- Integrated more service signatures from MadHat
(madhat(a)unspecific.com), Brian Hatch (bri(a)ifokr.org), Niels
Heinen (zillion(a)safemode.org), Solar Designer
(solar(a)openwall.com), Seth Master
(smaster(a)stanford.edu), and Curt Wilson
(netw3_security(a)hushmail.com),
- Applied a patch from Solar Eclipse (solareclipse(a)phreedom.org)
which increases the allowed size of the 'extrainfo' version field from
80 characters to 128. The main benefit is to allow longer apache module
version strings.
- Fixed Windows compilation.
- Applied some updates to README-WIN32 sent in by Kirby Kuehl
(kkuehl(a)cisco.com). He improved the list of suggested registry
changes and also fixed a typo or two. He also attached a .reg file
automate the Nmap connect() scan performance enhancing registry
changes. I am now including that with the Nmap Windows binary .zip
distribution (and in mswin32/ of the source distro).
- Applied a one-line patch from Dmitry V. Levin (ldv@altlinux.org)
which fixes a test Nmap does during compilation to see if an existing
libpcap installation is recent enough.
3.40PVT17:
==========
- Wrote and posted a new paper on version scanning to
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/versionscan.html . Updated
nmap-service-probes and the Nmap man page to simply refer to this
URL.
- Integrated more service signatures from my own scanning as well as
contributions from Brian Hatch (bri(a)ifokr.org), MadHat
(madhat(a)unspecific.com), Max Vision (vision(a)whitehats.com), HD
Moore (hdm(a)digitaloffense.net), Seth Master
(smaster(a)stanford.edu), and Niels Heinen (zillion(a)safemode.org).
MadHat also contributed a new probe for Windows Media Service. Many
people set a LOT of signatures, which has allowed
nmap-service-probes to grow from 295 to 356 signatures representing
85 service protocols!
- Applied a patch (with slight changes) from Brian Hatch
(bri(a)ifokr.org) which enables caching of SSL sessions so that
negotiation doesn't have to be repeated when Nmap reconnects to the same
between probes.
- Applied a patch from Brian Hatch (bri@ifokr.org) which optimizes the
requested SSL ciphers for speed rather than security. The list was
based on empirical evidence from substantial benchmarking he did with
tests that resemble nmap-service-scanning.
- Updated the Nmap man page to discuss the new version scanning
options (-sV, -A).
- I now include nmap-version/aclocal.m4 in the distribution as this is
required to rebuild the configure script ( thanks to Dmitry V. Levin
(ldv(a)altlinux.org) for notifying me of the problem.
- Applied a patch from Dmitry V. Levin (ldv(a)altlinux.org) which
detects whether the PCRE include file is <pcre.h> or <pcre
- Applied a patch from Dmitry V. Levin (ldv(a)altlinux.org) which
fixes typos in some error messages. The patch apparently came from
the highly-secure and stable Owl and Alt Linux distributions. Check
them out at http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ and
http://www.altlinux.com/
- Fixed compilation on Mac OS X - thanks to Brian Hatch
(bri(a)ifokr.org> and Ryan Lowe (rlowe(a)pablowe.net) for giving me
access to Mac OS X boxes.
- Stripped down libpcre build system to remove libtool dependency and
other cruft that Nmap doesn't need. (this was mostly a response to
libtool-related issues on Mac OS X).
- Added a new --version_trace option which causes Nmap to print out extensive
debugging info about what version scanning is doing (this is a subset
of what you would get with --packet_trace). You should usually use
this in combination with at least one -d option.
- Fixed a port number printing bug that would cause Nmap service
fingerprints to give a negative port number when the actual port was
above 32K. Thanks to Seth Master (smaster@stanford.edu) for finding
this.
- Updated all the header text again to clarify our interpretation of
"derived works" after some suggestions from Brian Hatch
(bri(a)ifokr.org)
- Updated the Nsock config.sub/config.guess to the same newer versions
that Nmap uses (for Mac OS X compilation).
3.40PVT16:
==========
- Fixed a compilation problem on systems w/o OpenSSL that was
discovered by Solar Designer. I also fixed some compilation
problems on non-IPv6 systems. It now compiles and runs on my
Solaris and ancient OpenBSD systems.
- Integrated more services thanks to submissions from Niels Heinen
(zillion(a)safemode.org).
- Canonicalized the headers at the top of each Nmap/Nsock header src
file. This included clarifying our interpretation of derived works,
updating the copyright date to 2003, making the header a bit wider,
and a few other light changes. I've been putting this off for a
while, because it required editing about a hundred !#$# files!
3.40PVT15:
==========
- Fixed a major bug in the Nsock time caching system. This could
cause service detection to inexplicably fail against certain ports in
the second or later machines scanned. Thanks to Solar Designer and HD
Moore for helping me track this down.
- Fixed some *BSD compilation bugs found by
Zillion (zillion(a)safemode.org).
- Integrated more services thanks to submissions from Fyodor Yarochkin
(fygrave(a)tigerteam.net), and Niels Heinen
(zillion(a)safemode.org), and some of my own exploring. There are
now 295 signatures.
- Fixed a compilation bug found by Solar Designer on machines that
don't have struct sockaddr_storage. Nsock now just uses "struct
sockaddr *" like connect() does.
- Fixed a bug found by Solar Designer which would cause the Nmap
portscan table to be truncated in -oN output files if the results are
very long.
- Changed a bunch of large stack arrays (e.g. int portlookup[65536])
into dynamically allocated heap pointers. The large stack variables
apparently caused problems on some architectures. This issue was
reported by osamah abuoun (osamah_abuoun(a)hotmail.com).
3.40PVT14:
==========
- Added IPv6 support for service scan.
- Added an 'sslports' directive to nmap-service-probes. This tells
Nmap which service checks to try first for SSL-wrapped ports. The
syntax is the same as the normal 'ports' directive for non-ssl ports.
For example, the HTTP probe has an 'sslports 443' line and
SMTP-detecting probes have and 'sslports 465' line.
- Integrated more services thanks to submissions from MadHat
(madhat(a)unspecific.com), Solar Designer (solar(a)openwall.com), Dug
Song (dugsong(a)monkey.org), pope(a)undersec.com, and Brian Hatch
(bri(a)ifokr.org). There are now 288 signatures, matching these 65
service protocols:
chargen cvspserver daytime domain echo exec finger font-service
ftp ftp-proxy http http-proxy hylafax ident ident imap imaps ipp
ircbot ircd irc-proxy issrealsecure landesk-rc ldap meetingmaker
microsoft-ds msrpc mud mysql ncacn_http ncp netbios-ns netbios-ssn
netsaint netwareip nntp nsclient oracle-tns pcanywheredata pop3
pop3s postgres printer qotd redcarpet rlogind rpc rsync rtsp shell
smtp snpp spamd ssc-agent ssh ssl telnet time upnp uucp vnc
vnc-http webster whois winshell X11
- Added a Lotus Notes probe from Fyodor Yarochkin
(fygrave(a)tigerteam.net).
- Dug Song wins the "award" for most obscure service fingerprint
submission. Nmap now detects Dave Curry's Webster dictionary server
from 1986 :).
- Service fingerprints now include a 'T=SSL' attribute when SSL
tunneling was used.
- More portability enhancements thanks to Solar Designer and his Linux
2.0 libc5 boxes.
- Applied a patch from Gisle Vanem (giva(a)bgnett.no) which improves
Windows emulation of the UNIX mmap() and munmap() memory mapping calls.
3.40PVT13:
==========
- Added SSL-scan-through support. If service detection finds a port to be
SSL, it will transparently connect to the port using OpenSSL and use
version detection to determine what service lies beneath. This
feature is only enabled if OpenSSL is available at build time. A
new --with-openssl=DIR configure option is available if OpenSSL is
not in your default compiler paths. You can use --without-openssl
to disable this functionality. Thanks to Brian Hatch
(bri(a)ifokr.org) for sample code and other assistance. Make sure
you use a version without known exploitable overflows. In
particular, versions up to and including OpenSSL 0.9.6d and
0.9.7-beta2 contained serious vulnerabilities described at
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20020730.txt . Note that these
vulnerabilities are well over a year old at the time of this
writing.
- Integrated many more services thanks to submissions from Brian
Hatch, HellNBack ( hellnbak(a)nmrc.org ), MadHat, Solar Designer,
Simple Nomad, and Shawn Wallis (swallis(a)ku.edu). The number of
signatures has grown from 242 to 271. Thanks!
- Integrated Novell Netware NCP and MS Terminal Server probes from
Simple Nomad (thegnome(a)nmrc.org).
- Fixed a segfault found by Solar Designer that could occur when
scanning certain "evil" services.
- Fixed a problem reported by Solar Designer and MadHat (
madhat(a)unspecific.com ) where Nmap would bail when certain Apache
version/info responses were particularly long. It could happen in
other cases as well. Now Nmap just prints a warning.
- Fixed some portability issues reported by Solar Designer
( solar(a)openwall.com )
3.40PVT12:
==========
- I added probes for SSL (session startup request) and microsoft-ds
(SMB Negotiate Protocol request).
- I changed the default read timeout for a service probe from 7.5s to 5s.
- Fixed a one-character bug that broke many scans when -sV was NOT
given. Thanks to Blue Boar (BlueBoar(a)thievco.com) for the report.
3.40PVT11:
==========
- Integrated many more services thanks to submissions from Simple
Nomad, Solar Designer, jerickson(a)inphonic.com, Curt Wilson, and
Marco Ivaldi. Thanks! The match line count has risen from 201 to 242.
- Implemented a service classification scheme to separate the
vendor/product name from the version number and any extra info that
is provided. Instead of v/[big version string]/, the new match
lines include v/[vendor/productname]/[version]/[extrainfo]/ . See
the docs at the top of nmap-service-probes for more info. This
doesn't change the normal output (which lumps them together anyway),
but they are separate in the XML so that higher-level programs can
easily match against just a product name. Here are a few examples
of the improved service element:
<service name="ssh" product="OpenSSH" version="3.1p1"
extrainfo="protocol 1.99" method="probed" conf="10" />
<service name="domain" product="ISC Bind" version="9.2.1"
method="probed" conf="10" />
<state state="open" /><service name="rpcbind" version="2"
extrainfo="rpc #100000" method="probed" conf="10" />
<service name="rndc" method="table" conf="3" />
- I went through nmap-service-probes and added the vendor name to more
entries. I also added the service name where the product name
itself didn't make that completely obvious.
- SCO Corporation of Lindon, Utah (formerly Caldera) has lately taken
to an extortion campaign of demanding license fees from Linux users
for code that they themselves knowingly distributed under the terms
of the GNU GPL. They have also refused to accept the GPL, claiming
that some preposterous theory of theirs makes it invalid. Meanwhile
they have distributed GPL-licensed Nmap in (at least) their
"Supplemental Open Source CD". In response to these blatant
violations, and in accordance with section 4 of the GPL, we hereby
terminate SCO's rights to redistribute any versions of Nmap in any
of their products, including (without limitation) OpenLinux,
Skunkware, OpenServer, and UNIXWare.
3.40PVT10:
==========
- Added "soft matches". These are similar to normal match lines in
that they provide a regex for recognizing a service (but no version).
But instead of stopping at softmatch service recognition, the scan
continues looking for more info. It only launches probes that are
known-capable of matching the softmatched service. If no version
number is found, at least the determined service is printed. A
service print for submission is also provided in that case. So this
provides more informative results and improves efficiency.
- Cleaned up the Windows support a bit and did more testing and
fixing. Windows service detection seems to be working fine for me
now, although my testing is still pretty limited. This release
includes a Windows binary distribution and the README-WIN32 has been
updated to reflect new compilation instructions.
- More service fingerprints! Thanks to Solar Designer, Max Vision,
Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One) for the submissions. I also added a
bunch from my own testing. The number of match lines went from 179
to 201.
- Updated XML output to handle new version and service detection
information. Here are a few examples of the new output:
<port protocol="tcp" portid="22"><state state="open" /><service
name="ssh" version="OpenSSH 3.1p1 (protocol 1.99)" method="probed"
conf="10" /></port>
<port protocol="tcp" portid="111"><state state="open" /><service
name="rpcbind" version="2 (rpc #100000)" method="probed" conf="10" /></port>
<port protocol="tcp" portid="953"><state state="open" /><service
name="rndc" method="table" conf="3" /></port>
- Fixed issue where Nmap would quit when ECONNREFUSED was returned
when we try to read from an already-connected TCP socket. FreeBSD
does this for some reason instead of giving ECONNRESET. Thanks to
Will Saxon (WillS(a)housing.ufl.edu) for the report.
- Removed the SERVICEMATCH_STATIC match type from
nmap-service-probes. There wasn't much benefit of this over regular
expressions, so it isn't worth maintaining the extra code.
3.40PVT9:
=========
- Added/fixed numerous service fingerprints thanks to submissions from
Max Vision, MadHat, Seth Master. Match lines went
from 164 to 179.
- The Winpcap libraries used in the Windows build process have been
upgraded to version 3.0.
- Most of the Windows port is complete. It compiles and service scan
works (I didn't test very deeply) on my WinXP box with VS.Net 2003.
I try to work out remaining kinks and do some cleanup for the next
version. The Windows code was restructured and improved quite a bit,
but much more work remains to be done in that area. I'll probably
do a Windows binary .zip release of the next version.
- Various minor fixes
3.40PVT8:
=========
- Service scan is now OFF by default. You can activate it with -sV.
Or use the snazzy new -A (for "All recommended features" or
"Aggressive") option which turns on both OS detection and service
detection.
- Fixed compilation on my ancient OpenBSD 2.3 machine (a Pentium 60 :)
- Added/fixed numerous service fingerprints thanks to submissions from
Brian Hatch, HD Moore, Anand R., and some of my own testing. The
number of match lines in this version grows from 137 to 164! Please
keep 'em coming!
- Various important and not-so-important fixes for bugs I encountered
while test scanning.
- The RPC grinder no longer prints a startup message if it has no
RPC-detected ports to scan.
- Some of the service fingerprint length limitations are relaxed a bit
if you enable debugging (-d).
3.40PVT7:
=========
- Added a whole bunch of services submitted by Brian Hatch
(bri(a)ifokr.org). I also added a few Windows-related probes.
Nmap-service-probes has gone from 101 match strings to 137. Please
keep the submissions coming.
- The question mark now only appears for ports in the OPEN state and
when service detection was requested.
- I now print a separator bar between service fingerprints when Nmap
prints more than one for a given host so that users understand to
submit them individually (suggested by Brian Hatch (bri(a)ifokr.org))
- Fixed a bug that would cause Nmap to print "empty" service
fingerprints consisting of just a semi-colon. Thanks to Brian Hatch
(bri(a)ifokr.org) for reporting this.
3.40PVT6:
=========
- Banner-scanned hundreds of thousands of machines for ports
21,23,25,110,3306 to collect default banners. Where the banner made
the service name/version obvious, I integrated them into
nmap-service-probes. This increased the number of 'match' lines from
27 to more than 100.
- Created the service fingerprint submission page at
http://www.insecure.org/cgi-bin/servicefp-submit.cgi
- Changed the service fingerprint format slightly for easier
processing by scripts.
- Applied a large portability patch from Albert Chin-A-Young
(china(a)thewrittenword.com). This cleans up a number of things,
particularly for IRIX, Tru64, and Solaris.
- Applied NmapFE patch from Peter Marschall (peter(a)adpm.de) which
"makes sure changes in the relay host and scanned port entry fields
are displayed immediately, and also keeps the fields editable after
de- and reactivating them."
3.40PVT4:
=========
- Limited the size of service fingerprints to roughly 1024 bytes.
This was suggested by Niels Heinen (niels(a)heinen.ws), because the previous
limit was excessive. The number of fingerprints printed is also now
limited to 10.
- Fixed a segmentation fault that could occur when ping-scanning large
networks.
- Fixed service scan to gracefully handle host_timeout occurrences when
they happen during a service scan.
- Fixed a service_scan bug that would cause an error when hosts send
data and then close() during the NULL probe (when we haven't sent
anything).
- Applied a patch from Solar Designer (solar(a)openwall.com) which
corrects some errors in the Russian man page translation and also a
couple typos in the regular man page. Then I spell-checked the man
page to reduce future instances of foreigners sending in diffs to
correct my English :).
3.40PVT3:
=========
- Nmap now prints a "service fingerprint" for services that it is
unable to match despite returning data. The web submission page it
references is not yet available.
- Service detection now does RPC grinding on ports it detects to be
running RPC.
- Fixed a bug that would cause Nmap to quit with an Nsock error when
--host_timeout was used (or when -T5 was used, which sets it
implicitly).
- Fixed a bug that would cause Nmap to fail to print the OS
fingerprint in certain cases. Thanks to Ste Jones
(root(a)networkpenetration.com) for the problem report.
3.40PVT2:
=========
- Nmap now has a simple VERSION detection scheme. The 'match' lines in
nmap-service-probes can specify a template version string
(referencing subexpression matches from the regex in a perl-like
manner) so that the version is determined at the same time as the
service. This handles many common services in a highly efficient
manner. A more complex form of version detection (that initiates
further communication w/the target service) may be necessary
eventually to handle services that aren't as forthcoming with
version details.
- The Nmap port state table now wastes less whitespace due to using a new
and stingy NmapOutputTable class. This makes it easier to read, and
also leaves more room for version info and possibly other enhancements.
- Added 's' option to match lines in nmap-service-probes. Just as
with the perl 's' option, this one causes '.' in the regular
expression to match any character INCLUDING newline.
- The WinPcap header timestamp is no longer used on Windows as it
sometimes can be a couple seconds different than gettimeofday() (which
is really _ftime() on Windows) for some reason. Thanks to Scott
Egbert (scott.egbert(a)citigroup.com) for the report.
- Applied a patch by Matt Selsky (selsky(a)columbia.edu) which fixes
configure.in in such a way that the annoying header file "present but
cannot be compiled" warning for Solaris.
- Applied another patch from Matt that (we hope) fixes the "present
but cannot be compiled" warning -- this time for Mac OS X.
- Port table header names are now capitalized ("SERVICE", "PORT", etc)
3.40PVT1:
=========
- Initial implementation of service detection. Nmap will now probe
ports to determine what is listening, rather than guessing based on
the nmap-services table lookup. This can be very useful for
services on unidentified ports and for UDP services where it is not
always clear (without these probes) whether the port is really open
or just firewalled. It is also handy for when services are run on
the well-known-port of another protocol -- this is happening more
and more as users try to circumvent increasingly strict firewall
policies.
- Nmap now uses the excellent libpcre (Perl Compatible Regular
Expressions) library from http://www.pcre.org/ . Many systems
already have this, otherwise Nmap will use the copy it now includes.
If your libpcre is hidden away in some nonstandard place, give
./configure the new --with-libpcre=DIR directive.
- Nmap now uses the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). This makes
programming easier, but if it causes major portability or bloat
problems, I'll reluctantly remove it.
- Applied a patch from Javier Kohen (jkohen(a)coresecurity.com) which
normalizes the names of many Microsoft entries in the
nmap-os-fingerprints file.
- Applied a patch by Florin Andrei (florin(a)sgi.com) to the Nmap RPM
spec file. This uses the 'Epoch' flag to prevent the Redhat Network
tool from marking my RPMs as "obsolete" and "upgrading" to earlier
Redhat-built versions. A compilation flag problem is also fixed.
Based on patch sent by Juan RP via PR pkg/20839.
Changes:
Nmap 3.20:
==========
o The random IP input option (-iR) now takes an argument specifying
how many IPs you want to scan (e.g. -iR 1000). Specify 0 for the old
neverending scan behavior.
o Fixed a tricky memory leak discovered by Mugz (mugz@x-mafia.com).
o Fixed output truncation problem noted by Lionel CONS (lionel.cons@cern.ch)
o Fixed a bug that would cause certain incoming ICMP error messages to
be improperly ignored.
Nmap 3.15BETA3:
===============
o Made numerous improvements to the timing behavior of "-T Aggressive"
(same as -T4) scans. It is now recommended for regular use by
impatient people with a fast connection. "-T Insane" mode has also
been updated, but we only recommend that for, well, insane people.
o Made substantial changes to the SYN/connect()/Window scanning
algorithms for improved speeds, especially against heavily filtered
hosts. If you notice any timing problems (misidentified ports,
etc.), please send me the details (including full Nmap output and a
description of what is wrong). Reports of any timing problems with
-T4 would be helpful as well.
o Changed Nmap such that ALL syn scan packets are sent from the port
you specify with -g. Retransmissions used to utilize successively
higher ports. This change has a downside in that some operating
systems (such as Linux) often won't reply to the retransmissions
because they reuse the same connection specifier quad
(srcip:srcport:dstip:dstport). Overall I think this is a win.
o Added timestamps to "Starting nmap" line and each host port scan in
verbose (-v) mode. These are in ISO 8601 standard format because
unlike President Bush, we actually care about International
consensus :).
o Nmap now comes by default in .tar.bz2 format, which compresses about
20% further. You can still find .tgz in the dist directory at
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/?M=D .
o Various other minor bugfixes, new services, fingerprints, etc.
Nmap 3.15BETA2:
===============
o I added support for a brand new "port" that many of you may have
never scanned before! UDP & TCP "port 0" (and IP protocol 0) are now
permitted if you specify 0 explicitly. An argument like "-p -40"
would still scan ports 1-40. Unlike ports, protocol 0 IS now scanned
by default. This now works for ping probes too (e.g., -PS, -PA).
o Applied patch by Martin Kluge (martin@elxsi.info) which adds --ttl
option, which sets the outgoing IPv4 TTL field in packets sent via
all raw scan types (including ping scans and OS detection). The
patch "should work" on Windows, but hasn't been tested. A TTL of 0
is supported, and even tends to work on a LAN:
14:17:19.474293 192.168.0.42.60214 > 192.168.0.40.135: S 3265375623:3265375623(0) win 1024 [ttl 0] (id 35919, len 40)
14:17:19.474456 192.168.0.40.135 > 192.168.0.42.60214: S 2805154856:2805154856(0) ack 3265375624 win 64240 <mss 1460> (DF) (ttl 128, id 49889, len 44)
o Applied patch by Gabriel L. Somlo ( somlo@acns.colostate.edu ) which
extends the multi-ping-port functionality to nonroot and IPv6
connect() users.
o I added a new --datadir command line option which allows you to
specify the highest priority directory for Nmap data files
nmap-services, nmap-os-fingerprints, and nmap-rpc. Any files which
aren't in the given dir, will be searched for in the $NMAPDIR
environmental variable, ~/nmap/, a compiled in data directory
(e.g. /usr/share/nmap), and finally the current directory.
o Fixed Windows (VC++ 6) compilation, thanks to patches from Kevin
Davis (computerguy@cfl.rr.com) and Andy Lutomirski
(luto@stanford.edu)
o Included new Latvian man page translation by
"miscelerious options" (misc@inbox.lv)
o Fixed Solaris compilation when Sun make is used rather than GNU
make. Thanks to Tom Duffy (tduffy@sun.com) for assistance.
o Applied patch from Stephen Bishop (sbishop@idsec.co.uk) which
prevends certain false-positive responses when Nmap raw TCP ping scans
are being run in parallel.
o To emphasize the highly professional nature of Nmap, I changed all
instances of "fucked up" in error message text into "b0rked".
o Fixed a problem with nmap-frontend RPMs that would cause a bogus
/bin/xnmap link to be created (it should only create
/usr/bin/xnmap). Thanks to Juho Schultz
(juho.schultz@astro.helsinki.fi) for reporting the problem.
o I made the maximum number of allowed routes and interfaces allowed
on the scanning machine dynamic rather than hardcoded #defines of 1024
and 128. You never know -- some wacko probably has that many :).
Nmap 3.15BETA1:
===============
o Integrated the largest OS fingerprint DB updates ever! Thanks to
everyone who contributed signatures! New or substantially modified
fingerprints included the latest Windows 2K/XP changes, Cisco IOS
12.2-based routers and PIX 6.3 firewalls, FreeBSD 5.0, AIX 5.1,
OpenBSD 3.2, Tru64 5.1A, IBM OS/400 V5R1M0, dozens of wireless APs,
VOIP devices, firewalls, printers, print servers, cable modems,
webcams, etc. We've even got some mod-chipped Xbox fingerprints
now!
o Applied NetBSD portability patch by Darren Reed
(darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au)
o Updated Makefile to better-detect if it can't make nmapfe and
provide a clearer error message. Also fixed a couple compiler
warnings on some *BSD platforms.
o Applied patch from "Max" (nmap@webwizarddesign.com) which adds the
port owner to the "addport" XML output lines which are printed (only
in verbose mode, I think) as each open port is discovered.
o I killed the annoying whitespace that is normally appended after the
service name. Now it is only there when an owner was found via -sI
(in which case there is a fourth column and so "service" must be
exactly 24 characters).
Nmap 3.10ALPHA9:
================
o Reworked the "ping scan" algorithm (used for any scan except -P0 or
-sL) to be more robust in the face of low-bandwidth and congested
connections. This also improves reliability in the multi-port and
multi-type ping cases described below.
o "Ping types" are no longer exclusive -- you can now do combinations
such as "-PS22,53,80 -PT113 -PN -PE" in order to increase your odds of
passing through strict filters. The "PB" flag is now deprecated
since you can achieve the same result via "PE" and "PT" options.
o Applied patch (with modest changes) by Gabriel L. Somlo
(somlo@acns.colostate.edu), which allows multiple TCP probe ports in
raw (root) mode. See the previous item for an example.
o Fixed a libpcap compilation issue noted by Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
(deusxmachina@webmail.co.za) which relates to the definition (or
lack thereof) of ARPHRD_HDLC (used for Cisco HDLC frames).
o Tweaked the version number (-V) output slightly.
Nmap 3.10ALPHA7:
================
o Upgraded libpcap from version 0.6.2 to 0.7.1. Updated the
libpcap-possiblymodified/NMAP_MODIFICATIONS file to give a much
more extensive list (including diffs) of the changes included
in the Nmap bundled version of Libpcap.
o Applied patch to fix a libpcap alignment bug found by Tom Duffy
(tduffy@sun.com).
o Fixed Windows compilation.
o Applied patch by Chad Loder (cloder@loder.us) of Rapid7 which
fixes OpenBSD compilation. I believe Chad is now the official
OpenBSD Nmap "port" maintainer. His patch also adjusted
random-scan (-iR) to include the recently allocated 82.0.0.0/8
space.
o Fixed (I hope) a few compilation problems on
non-IPv6-enabled machines which were noted by Josef 'Jupp'
Schugt (jupp@gmx.de)
o Included some man page translations which were inadvertently
missed in previous tarballs.
o Applied patch from Matthieu Verbert (mve@zurich.ibm.com) which
places the Nmap man pages under ${prefix}/share/man rather than
${prefix}/man when installed via RPM. Maybe the tarball
install should do this too? Opinions?
o Applied patch from R Anderson (listbox@pole-position.org) which
improves the way ICMP port unreachables from intermediate hosts
are handled during UDP scans.
o Added note to man page related to Nmap US export control. I
believe Nmap falls under ECCN 5D992, which has no special
restrictions beyond the standard export denial to a handful of
rogue nations such as Iraq and North Korea.
o Added a warning that some hosts may be skipped and/or repeated
when someone tries to --resume a --randomize_hosts scan. This
was suggested by Crayden Mantelium (crayden@sensewave.com)
o Fixed a minor memory leak noted by Michael Davis
(mike@datanerds.net).
Nmap 3.10ALPHA4:
================
o Applied patch by Max Schubert (nmap@webwizarddesign.com) which adds
an add-port XML tag whenever a new port is found open when Nmap is
running in verbose mode. The new tag looks like:
<addport state="open" portid="22" protocol="tcp"/>
I also updated docs/nmap.dtd to recognize this new tag.
o Added German translation of Nmap manpage by Marc Ruef
(marc.ruef@computec.ch). It is also available at
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap_manpage-de.html
o Includes a brand new French translation of the manpage by Sebastien
Blanchet. You could probably guess that it is available at
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap_manpage-fr.html
o Applied some patches from Chad Loder (cloder@loder.us) which update
the random IP allocation pool and improve OpenBSD support. Some
were from the OBSD Nmap patchlist.
o Fixed a compile problem on machines without PF_INET6. Thanks to
Josef 'Jupp' Schugt (deusxmachina@webmail.co.za) for noting this.
Nmap 3.10ALPHA3:
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o Added --min_parallelism option, which makes scans more aggressive
and MUCH faster in certain situations -- especially against
firewalled hosts. It is basically the opposite of --max_parallelism
(-M). Note that reliability can be lost if you push it too far.
o Added --packet_trace option, which tells Nmap to display all of the
packets it sends and receives in a format similar to tcpdump. I
mostly added this for debugging purposes, but ppl wishing to learn
how Nmap works or for experts wanting to ensure Nmap is doing
exactly what they epect. If you want this feature supported under
Windows, please send me a patch :).
o Fixed a segmentation fault in Idlescan (-sI).
o Made Idlescan timing more conservative when -P0 is specified to
improve accuracy.
o Fixed an infinite-loop condition that could occur during certain
dropped-packet scenarios in an Idle scan.
o Nmap now reports execution times to millisecond precision (rather
than rouding to the nearest second).
o Fixed an infinite loop caused by invalid port arguments. Problem
noted by fejed (fejed@uddf.net).
Nmap 3.10ALPHA2:
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o Fixed compilation and IPv6 support on FreeBSD (tested on
4.6-STABLE). Thanks to Niels Heinen (niels.heinen@ubizen.com) for
suggestions.
o Made some portability changes based on suggestions by Josef 'Jupp'
Schugt (jupp@gmx.de)
o Fixed compilation and IPv6 support on Solaris 9 (haven't tested
earlier versions).
Nmap 3.10ALPHA1:
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o IPv6 is now supported for TCP scan (-sT), connect()-style ping
scan (-sP), and list scan (-sL)! Just specify the -6 option and the
IPv6 numbers or DNS names. Netmask notation is not currently
supported -- I'm not sure how useful it is for IPv6, where even petty
end users may be allocated trillions of addresses (/80). If you
need one of the scan types that hasn't been ported yet, give
Sebastien Peterson's patch a try at http://nmap6.sourceforge.net/ .
If there is demand, I may integrate more of that into Nmap.
o Major code restructing, which included conversion to C++ -- so
you'll need g++ or another C++ compiler. I accidently let a C++
requirement slip in a while back and found that almost everyone has
such a compiler. Windows (VC++) users: see the README-WIN32 for new
compilation instructions.
o Applied patch from Axel Nennker (Axel.Nennker@t-systems.com) which
adds a --without-nmapfe option to the configure script. This si
useful if your system doesn't have the proper libraries (eg GTK) or
if you think GUIs are for sissies :).
o Removed arbitrary max_parallelism (-M) limitations, as suggested by
William McVey ( wam@cisco.com ).
o Added DEC OSF to the platforms that require the BSDFIX() macro due
to taking ip length and offset fields in host rather than network byte
order. Suggested by Dean Bennett (deanb@gbtn.net)
o Fixed an debug statement C ambiguity discovered by Kronos
(kronos@kronoz.cjb.net)
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