Re: How to contribute to Nmap

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:59:23PM -0400, Wooyoung Chung wrote:
> I'm aware of GSoC and I'm interested in a position for Discovery
> Scanning or Vulnerability and exploitation
> since that is my study field in graduate school. But because I have
> two finals in three days, I may not able to
> do much work for it at this moment.
>
> To get some experience of lua and nse scripting, I wrote a simple
> nse script that was on the script idea list.

Thanks for this. This feature should really be implemented in a reusable
library under nselib, not as a script.

The goal is to enhance the output of ndmp-version and smb-mbenum
scripts. You should think how to make a nice library function to do
that. It's best if you make a patch to either of those scripts showing
how your function will be called.

> **Microsoft Version Table:
>     I think this is pretty straight forward to write a function for
> this, but I need to clarify something.
>     Basically, the function will take major, minor and build number
> as string, and return long windows version
>     name if exists in the list[2]. However, there are some duplicate
> version with different name such as
> Windows 7, RTM (Release to Manufacturing)     6.1.7600.16385 (22.10.2009)
> Windows Server 2008 R2, RTM (Release to Manufacturing)
>       6.1.7600.16385 (22.10.2009)
>
> and I'm not sure how should I handle these cases.

Probably you will have to map the build number to a list of
possibilities.

David Fifield
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