Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:03 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> I checked out your nse_openssl branch and built it with
> --without-openssl. Then I ran
>
>        nmap --script=SSH-hostkey -p ssh goomba.bamsoftware.com --script-args=ssh_hostkey=all
>
> I got the error
>
>        SCRIPT ENGINE: Initiating script scanning.
>        SCRIPT ENGINE: Script scanning mail.bamsoftware.com (64.81.99.73).
>        SCRIPT ENGINE: error while initializing script rules:
>        ./scripts/SSH-hostkey.nse:34: module 'openssl' not found:
>                no field package.preload['openssl']
>                no file './nselib/openssl.lua'
>                no file './openssl.lua'
>                no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/openssl.lua'
>                no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/openssl/init.lua'
>                no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/openssl.lua'
>                no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/openssl/init.lua'
>                no file './nselib-bin/openssl.so'
>                no file './openssl.so'
>                no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/openssl.so'
>                no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
>        stack traceback:
>                [C]: in function 'require'
>                ./scripts/SSH-hostkey.nse:34: in main chunk
>                [C]: ?
>                [C]: ?
>
>        SCRIPT ENGINE: Script scanning completed.
>        SCRIPT ENGINE: Aborting script scan.
>
> I agree that the OpenSSL library could be useful. Is there a way to
> handle this situation gracefully? As it is it halts all script scanning
> when the openssl module can't be loaded.

Errors like this should not halt the script engine. I will correct this.

Cheers,

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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