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Nmap Development: Re: nmap (win32 4.60) bug and a fix

Re: nmap (win32 4.60) bug and a fix

From: Fyodor <fyodor_at_insecure.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:07:39 -0700

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:21:32PM +0300, Dudi I wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found a problem with nmap (4.60) when running on win32.
> when i scan an ip address which is a broadcast address (like 192.169.1.255)
> nmap gets into an infinite loop.
>
> its seems that the return code from getsockopt in this case is not handled
> at all (a 'Strange read error ...' message is produced) and nmap gets into
> an infinite loop.
>
> Attached is the diff file to fix this issue.

Thanks Dudi. I've applied this for the next Nmap release.

-F

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