Nmap Development: Re: nmap crashes 2.6.9 kernel ?

From: A.R. <r00t_at_northernfortress.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 03:01:46 +0000

Contacted the kernel developers. It's a kernel bug that has been fixed
in the 2.6.10pre

Regards

Alberto Revelli
Northern Fortress, Inc.

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 17:03, Brancaleoni Matteo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Il mer, 2004-10-27 alle 00:55, A.R. ha scritto:
> > I don't know if this is a known issue already, but I haven't found any
> > documentation about it.
> >
> > Issuing a 'nmap -sT -p 1-50000 127.0.0.1' for a few times on a 2.6.9
> > Linux kernel can cause the machine to freeze (nmap 3.75 on a 2.6.9
> > Gentoo box).
>
> I can confirm that. Same here with fedora core 2 + vanilla 2.6.9
> I suggest to contact the kernel mailing list to solve that.
>
> Matteo.

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