Nmap Development: libdnet problem with monitor mode interfaces

[Henri Doreau <henri.doreau () gmail com>]

Hi,

nmap appears to fail at finding any interface when at least one of
them is in monitor mode.

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# ./nmap scanme.nmap.org
Starting Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-05-27 22:24 CEST
route_dst_netlink: can't find interface "wlan0"

# ./nmap --iflist scanme.nmap.org
Starting Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-05-27 22:24 CEST
INTERFACES: NONE FOUND(!)
ROUTES: NONE FOUND(!)

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:B9:08:03:F1
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:17

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4170 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4170 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:763856 (745.9 KiB)  TX bytes:763856 (745.9 KiB)

mon1      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
00-22-FB-D4-5F-34-D3-9F-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:754779 errors:0 dropped:775551 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:113748840 (108.4 MiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:FB:D4:5F:34
          inet addr:10.0.16.185  Bcast:10.7.255.255  Mask:255.248.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::222:fbff:fed4:5f34/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:400862 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:341104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:501491067 (478.2 MiB)  TX bytes:37946903 (36.1 MiB)

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         10.7.255.254    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 wlan0
10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.248.0.0     U     2      0        0 wlan0
"""

I can reliably reproduce this and traced the problem to
libdnet-stripped/src/intf.c, line 517. It returns -1 on an interface
in monitor mode and breaks out of the interface discovery loop.

Not sure how to fix cleanly, but ignoring the return code of
addr_ston() line 516 makes it work.

Regards.

-- 
Henri
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