Nmap Development: Re: raw-sockets and Win-XP SP2

["Leigh" <hst () iprimus com au>]

I am beta testing XP SP2 and I think nmap is working okay for me thus far 
(although I have had horrendous problems with programs that use packet.dll 
even in XP SP1 & nmap always wants -P0 but I thought this may have something 
to do with my IDS). We are currently on release 2 of the SP and I am with no 
idea when the final is. Judging by the number of people whinging on the 
listserv with nasty errors in the networking/security aspects - it will 
probably be a long while coming.
I have quizzed them about why they are doing this & I'll let you know what 
they say (if/when I get a reply). And yeah, Steve Gibson is an arse who I 
guess happens to release good utilities for noob windows users every once in 
a while. What is he going on about anyway?, to my knowledge there are no 
trojans or worms that exclusively use raw sockets? but I could be wrong 
about that.
It appears that we would need is the negative of his existing "socket lock" 
program (that unfortunately *disables* :( raw sockets), im sure it would be 
possible for some bright spark to code.
Leigh
hst () iprimus com au

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gisle Vanem" <giva () bgnett no>
To: "Nmap-dev" <nmap-dev () insecure org>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:47 AM
Subject: raw-sockets and Win-XP SP2


> I've heard strong rumours that the upcoming Win-XP SP2 will disable
> the use of SOCK_RAW sockets for any user (admin included). This
> will certainly hurt the use of nmap on Win-XP unless we go with
> libnet for all platforms.
>
> Steve Gibson (of www.grc.com) has been talking about the danger
> of raw-sockets for years; "... have ANY practical need for raw
> sockets" [*] he claims. Yeah right. Seems MS is now listening to
> him. Yet for years they have deprecated the use of the ICMP API for
> ping-like programs. And advised us to use SOCK_RAW instead. Back
> to using icmp.dll again I guess.
>
> I for one will not install the service-pack unless there's a loop-hole
> to enable SOCK_RAW again. Anyone with additional info on this?
>
> [*] http://www.grc.com/dos/sockettome.htm
>
> --gv
>
>
>
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