Re: Nmap 3.93 crash on FreeBSD 5.3

[Andreas Ericsson <ae () op5 se>]

Phil Kernick wrote:
> Running nmap 3.93 on FreeBSD 5.3 as follows:
> # nmap -sS -p0-65535 -A -P0 -T 4 -oA probe-tcp --stylesheet
> http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap.xsl -vv -d -iL probe-hosts.txt
>
> The probe-hosts.txt file has a list of 30 hosts.
>
> After about 18 hours of running, nmap kills itself with:
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>   what():  St9bad_alloc
> Abort trap (core dumped)
>
> I didn't have debugging symbols compile into nmap, but running gdb and doing
> a backtrace shows this and the end:
>
> #1482 0x688e0375 in ?? ()
> #1483 0x0158b814 in ?? ()
> #1484 0xcd500000 in ?? ()
> #1485 0x90feeb80 in ?? ()
> #1486 0x102454ff in ?? ()
> #1487 0x1424448d in ?? ()
> #1488 0x1840f750 in ?? ()
> #1489 0x00020000 in ?? ()
> #1490 0x688e0375 in ?? ()
> #1491 0x0067b844 in ?? ()
> #1492 0xcd500000 in ?? ()
> #1493 0x90feeb80 in ?? ()
> #1494 0xbfbfe914 in ?? ()
> #1495 0x0000000f in ?? ()
> #1496 0xbfbfe954 in ?? ()
> #1497 0x0000002f in ?? ()
> Cannot access memory at address 0xbfc00000
>
> I can't believe that it's really 1497 stack frames deep!
>
> Any ideas?

I've seen this exact behaviour from Nagios, also on FreeBSD 5.3.

For Nagios, re-compiling with the GNU thread library (gptl or some 
such.. not nptl though) solved the problem. Perhaps you can try that?

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