Nmap Hackers: Re: Re: -O SIGSEGV

From: Karl Boehnker <boehnker_at_hoare.cs.umsl.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:24:23 -0600 (CST)

On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, HD Moore wrote:

> Im still finding new ways to cause SIGSEGV's just by not adding any
> arguments to -p, -O, a few others.. Maybe I will spend an hour finding
them
> all and organizing it..
>
> It crashes when you start doing the OS detection (e.g. after ping and
> portscan) or before?
> use -dd -vv and dump the error msgs....
>

After the ping & portscan. Nothing on stderr except for the "caught
SIGSEGV...". In my dwindling spare time I'm looking into it as well.

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For OSScan assuming that port 7 is open and port 37424 is closed and
neither are firewalled
Got packet for test number 1
Got packet for test number 4
Got packet for test number 5
Got packet for test number 6
Got packet for test number 7
caught SIGSEGV signal, cleaning up
Aborted
Received on Dec 16 1998