Re: Nmap 5.50 crashing: Assertion `timeout_msecs >= 0' failed

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:49:11PM +0100, Vlatko Kosturjak wrote:
> On 01/31/2011 05:58 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:36:33PM +0100, Vlatko Kosturjak wrote:
> > Please try with this patch. It will do a controlled Lua error so we see
> > a stack trace and find out which script is responsible. For example,
> >
> > NSE: 'path-mtu' (thread: 0x99555c0) against 192.168.0.2 threw an error!
> > ./scripts/path-mtu.nse:320: NEGATIVE TIMEOUT: -150
> > stack traceback:
> >         [C]: in function 'set_timeout'
> >         ./scripts/path-mtu.nse:320: in function <./scripts/path-mtu.nse:295>
> >         (tail call): ?
> >
> > The fact that a script can halt Nmap in this way is another bug, but
> > let's first fix whatever script is setting a negative timeout.
>
> Unfortunately, tried with exactly same command line and with exactly
> same target IPs two times, but cannot reproduce any more :(

Okay, no big deal. I committed the patch so it at least won't be a fatal
error in the future.

David Fifield
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