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Re: Feature Request: --update
From: Andreas Ericsson <ae () op5 se>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:34:52 +0100
Kris Katterjohn wrote:
Hari Sekhon wrote:I would very much like it if nmap could update it's signature database for fingerprinting remote hosts. For example nmap --update fetching latest fingerprints.... done I have been using nmap for a few years and to my knowledge this isn't a current feature (please correct me if I am wrong. I also just did "nmap --help|grep update" and got nothing). When using an older nmap it fails to fingerprint systems as well as a modern nmap. I'm currently using nmap 4.20. The reason I ask for this feature is not because I'm too lazy to upgrade to the latest version but because on livecds and such you are sometimes using old versions on nmap and it would be excellent if you could just nmap --update and get the latest sigs. For example, Knoppix STD has nmap 3.48 on it and rather than installing a new nmap every time you reboot, it would be better to just nmap --update && nmap [options] target. Really nmap --update could do a lot more than just sigs, but also nmap-service-probes and other nmap-* files in /usr/share/nmap or /usr/local/share/nmap, perhaps even upgrading the whole thing in place including the nmap binary so the second run is using a fully updated nmap! (but that really is up to you if you wanted to be that nice - however that would be Awesome. ) I know that the fingerprint db has recently been changed but I'm not sure how this affects this feature request. Thanks for reading. -hI've actually slowly been playing with something like this. I got the idea from ettercap --update. My thing semi-works but I never seem to be able to mess with it for more than a minute or two at a time. Something also seems to happen right after I open it, so I thought the Universe was trying to give me a hint :) Mine updates all the nmap-* files. But yeah, if anybody else wants to do this instead that'd be great.
pciutils have a similar functionality, but implemented as a separate script. I can't help but feel that this would be much better than adding some ftp/http/whatnot capabilities to the nmap core. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson () op5 se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- Feature Request: --update Hari Sekhon (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update Kris Katterjohn (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update Andreas Ericsson (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update Kris Katterjohn (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update Kris Katterjohn (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update Joshua D. Abraham (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update J.J. Green (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update William McVey (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update Jonathan Smith (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update Andreas Ericsson (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update Kris Katterjohn (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update (with script attached) Kris Katterjohn (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update (with script attached) Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman (Jan 19)
- Re: Feature Request: --update (with script attached) Kris Katterjohn (Jan 19)