Re: [nmap-svn] r29203 - nmap-exp/aca/nmap/scripts

[Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Henri Doreau <henri.doreau () gmail com>wrote:

> 2012/7/13  <commit-mailer () insecure org>:
> > Author: aca
> > Date: Fri Jul 13 08:22:23 2012
> > New Revision: 29203
> >
> > Log:
> > Script now works but causes assert failure when finishing, will need to
> investigate
> > [...]
> Hi,
>
> even buggy scripts shouldn't raise assertion failures. Are you running
> latest trunk? We recently fixed a problem in nsock[1] that could lead
> to such crashes. If you're getting this error with up to date code,
> could you send the details of the crash?
>
> Regards.
>
> [1] http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/60
>
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Not sure which script this is, but if the script is asserting after it
returns the script results and if it makes use of threads, it's likely that
the parent thread returns before the worker threads have stopped. I've
observed this behavior numerous times in the past. Kind of says something
about my coding *cough* :)

//Patrik
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