Nmap 4.76 released

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

Hi all.  Hot on the heals of the huge 4.75 release is 4.76, which
mostly consists of bug fixes for issues discovered by all the 4.75
attention.  But a few other features and fixes slipped in as well.
You can find it on the downloada page:

http://nmap.org/download.html

Please give it a try and let us know on nmap-dev if you encounter any
problems.  Here is the list of 13 key changes:

o There is a new "external" script category, for NSE scripts which
  rely on a third-party network resource. Scripts that send data to
  anywhere other than the target are placed in this category. Initial
  members are ASN.nse, dns-safe-recursion-port.nse,
  dns-safe-recursion-txid.nse, ripeQuery.nse, HTTP_open_proxy.nse, and
  whois.nse [David]

o [Zenmap] A crash was fixed that affected Windows users with
  non-ASCII characters in their user names. [David]
  The error looked like this (with many variations):
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x9c in position 28:
    unexpected code byte

o [Zenmap] Several corner-case crashes were fixed: [David]
    File "radialnet\gui\NodeNotebook.pyo", line 429, in __create_widgets
    KeyError: 'tcp'
    File "radialnet\gui\RadialNet.pyo", line 1531, in __livens_up
    AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_nodes'
    File "zenmapGUI\MainWindow.pyo", line 308, in _create_ui_manager
    GError: Odd character '\'
    File "radialnet/gui/ControlWidget.py", line 104, in __create_widgets
    AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'STOCK_INFO'
    File "radialnet\util\integration.pyo", line 385, in make_graph_from_hosts
    KeyError: 'hops'

o [Zenmap] A crash was fixed that happened when opening the Hosts
  Viewer with an empty list of hosts. [David]
  The error message was
    File "radialnet\gui\HostsViewer.pyo", line 167, in __cursor_callback
    TypeError: GtkTreeModel.get_iter requires a tree path as its argument

o Improved rpcinfo.nse to correctly parse a wider variety of server
  responses. [Sven Klemm]

o [Zenmap] Fixed a data encoding bug which could cause the crash
  reporter itself to crash! [David]

o Nmap's Windows self-installer now correctly registers/deletes the
  npf (Winpcap) service during install/uninstall. Also the silent
  install mode was improved to avoid a case where the Winpcap
  uninstaller was (non-silently) shown. [Rob Nicholls]

o Nmap's Windows self-installer now checks whether the MS Visual C++
  runtime components have already been installed to avoid running it
  again (which doesn't hurt anything, but slows down
  installation). [Rob Nicholls]

o Fixed an assertion failure where raw TCP timing ping probes were
  wrongly used during a TCP connect scan:
  nmap: scan_engine.cc:2843: UltraProbe* sendIPScanProbe(UltraScanInfo*,
    HostScanStats*, const probespec*, u8, u8):
    Assertion `USI->scantype != CONNECT_SCAN' failed.
  Thanks to LevelZero for the report. [David]

o Update the NSE bit library to replace deprecated use of
  luaL_openlib() with luaL_register(). This fixes a build error which
  occured on systems which have Lua libraries installed but
  LUA_COMPAT_OPENLIB not defined [Sven]

o [Zenmap] The automatic crash reporter no longer requires an email
  address. [David]

o [Zenmap] Highlighting of hostnames was improved to avoid wrongful
  highlighting of certain elapsed times, byte counts, and other
  non-hostname data. The blue highlight effects are now more subtle
  (no longer bold, underlined, or italic) [David]

o [Zenmap] A warning that would occur when a host had the same service
  running on more than one port was removed. Thanks to Toralf Förster
  for the bug report. [David]
    GtkWarning: gtk_box_pack_start: assertion `child->parent == NULL' failed
      self.pack_start(widget, expand=False, fill=False)



Enjoy!
-Fyodor


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