3.84ALPHA2

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

Nmap developers,

I'm pleased to another another private ALPHA release.  3.84ALPHA2 is
now available from:

http://www.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-3.84ALPHA2.tar.bz2
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-3.84ALPHA2-win32.zip

As always, GPG sigs are at: 
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/dist/sigs/?C=M;O=D

My current plan is to do a stable release based on this in the next
day or two.  So please give it a whirl and let me know if you find any
problems.  Here are the changes since ALPHA1:

o Fixed crash when Nmap is compiled using gcc 4.X by adding the
  --fno-strict-aliasing option when that compiler is detected.  Thanks
  to Greg Darke (starstuff(a)optusnet.com.au) for discovering that
  this option fixes (hides) the problem and to Duilio J. Protti
  (dprotti(a)flowgate.net) for writing the configure patch to detect
  gcc 4 and add the option.  A better fix is to identify and rewrite
  lines that violate C99 alias rules, and we are looking into that.

o Applied an enormous nmap-service-probes (version detection) update
  from SoC student Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.org).  Version 3.81 had
  1064 match lines covering 195 service protocols.  Now we have 2865
  match lines covering 359 protocols!  So the database size has nearly
  tripled!  This should make your -sV scans quicker and more
  accurate.  Thanks also go to the (literally) thousands of you who
  submitted service fingerprints.  Keep them coming!

o Added "rarity" feature to Nmap version detection.  This causes
  obscure probes to be skipped when they are unlikely to help.  Each
  probe now has a "rarity" value.  Probes that detect dozens of
  services such as GenericLines and GetRequest have rarity values of
  1, while the WWWOFFLEctrlstat and mydoom probes have a rarity of 9.
  When interrogating a port, Nmap always tries probes registered to
  that port number.  So even WWWOFFLEctrlstat will be tried against
  port 8081 and mydoom will be tried against open ports between 3127
  and 3198.  If none of the registered ports find a match, Nmap tries
  probes that have a rarity less than or equal to its current
  intensity level.  The intensity level defaults to 7 (so that most of
  the probes are done).  You can set the intensity level with the new
  --version_intensity option.  Alternatively, you can just use
  --version_light or --version_all which set the intensity to 2 (only
  try the most important probes and ones registered to the port
  number) and 9 (try all probes), respectively.  --version_light is
  much faster than default version detection, but also a bit less
  likely to find a match.  This feature was designed and implemented
  by Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.org).

o Added a "fallback" feature to the nmap-service-probes database.
  This allows a probe to "inherit" match lines from other probes.  It
  is currently only used for the HTTPOptions, RTSPRequest, and
  SSLSessionReq probes to inherit all of the match lines from
  GetRequest.  Some servers don't respond to the Nmap GetRequest (for
  example because it doesn't include a Host: line) but they do respond
  to some of those other 3 probes in ways that GetRequest match lines
  are general enough to match.  The fallback construct allows us to
  benefit from these matches without repeating hundreds of signatures
  in the file.  This is another feature designed and implemented
  by Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.org).

o Fixed crash with certain --excludefile or
  --exclude arguments.  Thanks to Kurt Grutzmacher
  (grutz(a)jingojango.net) and pijn trein (ptrein(a)gmail.com) for
  reporting the problem, and to Duilio J. Protti
  (dprotti(a)flowgate.net) for debugging the issue and sending the
  patch.

o Applied pach from Steve Martin (smartin(a)stillsecure.com) which
  standardizes many OS names and corrects typos in nmap-os-fingerprints.

o Fixed a crash found during certain UDP version scans.  The crash was
  discovered and reported by Ron (iago(a)valhallalegends.com) and fixed
  by Doug Hoyte (doug(a)hcsw.com).

o Added --iflist argument which prints a list of system interfaces and
  routes detected by Nmap.

o Fixed a protocol scan (-sO) problem which led to the error message:
  "Error compiling our pcap filter: syntax error".  Thanks to Michel
  Arboi (michel(a)arboi.fr.eu.org) for reporting the problem.

o Fixed an Nmap version detection crash on Windows which led to the
  error message "Unexpected error in NSE_TYPE_READ callback.  Error
  code: 10053 (Unknown error)".  Thanks to Srivatsan
  (srivatsanp(a)adventnet.com) for reporting the problem.

o Fixed some misspellings in docs/nmap.xml reported by Tom Sellers
  (TSellers(a)trustmark.com).

o Updated random scan (ip_is_reserved()) to reflect the latest IANA
  assignments.  This patch was sent in by 

Cheers,
Fyodor


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