Re: BUG? Socket troubles: Too many open files.

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 09:55:52AM -0500, Richard Miles wrote:
> Hi
>
> An additional info that may help, when I execute with -sS instead of -sT I
> get this:
>
> false   MSRPC call returned a fault (packet type)
> false   MSRPC call returned a fault (packet type)
> Socket troubles: Too many open files
> nmap: nsock_core.c:1187: nsp_add_event: Assertion `nse->iod->sd >= 0'
> failed.
> Aborted
>
> Starting Nmap 6.02 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-10-18 13:20 CDT
> Pre-scan script results:
> | broadcast-avahi-dos:
> |   Discovered hosts:
> |     10.0.0.32
> |     10.0.0.98
> |   After NULL UDP avahi packet DoS (CVE-2011-1002).
> |_  Hosts are all up (not vulnerable).
> Killed
>
> Note that after the errors it's being killed (by kernel?). Is there a
> workaround for it? Do you guess what script may be causing it? I would try
> disable it to see if the issue is solved as a workaround.

Do you still get the error if you reduce the number of ports scanned, as
with "--top-ports 10"?

Do you get the error if you disable the rpc-grind script?

David Fifield
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