Re: Oracle TNS Service Detection: match line behavior oddness

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:24:13AM -0500, Tom Sellers wrote:
> This morning I started working on the Oracle TNS Listener match lines
> in nmap-service-probes with the goal of trying to improve the remote
> version detection. In my test scenarios nmap would detect the TNS
> listener but it would not return the platform or version number, which
> I know can be triggered by the right packet.
>
>
> What I found is that everything that is needed is already in the probes
> file, but that, at least in my tests, the data I expected is not returned.
>
>
> After testing some more I found that I do not understand why nmap is
> behaving a certain way. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this
> for me....
>
>
> Here is the relevant section of the nmap-service-probes file from SVN,
> it starts on line 6633 (I have added line numbers for reference):
>
> 6633:Probe TCP oracle-tns q|\0Z\0\0\x01\0\0\0\x016\x01,\0\0\x08\0\x7F\xFF\x7F\x08\0\0\0\x01\0 \0:\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\04\xE6\0\0\0\x01\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0(CONNECT_DATA=(COMMAND=version))|
> 6634:rarity 7
> 6635:ports 1035,1521,1522,1525,1574,1748,1754
> 6636:match oracle-tns m|^\0.\0\0\x02\0\0\0.*TNSLSNR for ([-.+/ \w]{2,20}): Version ([-\d.]+) - Production|s p/Oracle TNS Listener/ v/$2 (for $1)/
> 6637:match dbsnmp m|^\0.\0\0\x02\0\0\0.*\(IAGENT = \(AGENT_VERSION = ([\d.]+)\)\(RPC_VERSION = ([\d.]+)\)\)|s p/Oracle Intelligent Agent/ v/$1/ i/RPC v$2/
> 6638:match oracle-tns m|^\0.\0\0\x02\0\0\0|s p/Oracle TNS Listener/
> 6639:match dbsnmp m|^\0,\0\0\x04\0\0\0\"\0\0 \(CONNECT_DATA=\(COMMAND=version\)\)| p/Oracle DBSNMP/
>
>
>
> Now, in my scans it is line 6638 (Oracle TNS Listener) that returns
> results. So I started looking at the more informative line 6636
> to see what I could do to the regex to get this to match. After
> commenting them all out, looking at the response, tweaking the
> regex and generally getting confused by the results I discovered
> something.
>
> Line 6636 **DOES** match if line 6638 is commented out or changed to
> a softmatch. I reran the tests by downloading a fresh probes file
> from SVN and running scans against multiple targets with line 6638
> working and disabled.
>
> In each case the match for line 6636 was over ridden by line 6638 which
> is 2 match lines further along. I thought that the first match would
> return results (win) and that match line testing would only continue if
> the first match was against a softmatch line.
>
> I also removed all of the scripts from the scripts folder to ensure that
> they were not confusing the issue. Incidentally, nmap does not like
> this much even after running --script-updatedb.
>
> I looked through the service detection documentation and didn't see
> anything that I though explained this.
>
> What am I missing here? Any thoughts?

Tom,

Were you able to find anything here? I found that commenting the second
oracle-tns match line lets nmap detect versions on all of my Oracle
servers instead of just some.

Any reason not to remove the second match line?

Cheers,

-- 
Matt
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