Re: Socket handle leak in http.lua

[Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>]

> While doing a large scan with a http script, we ran into an issue with
> running out of sockets fairly quickly. Brandon pointed me at the same
> issue occurring almost exactly a year ago, but the patch had already
> been applied and doesn't seem to have fixed the problem.

By a year ago, I mean a month ago -- sorry for my inability to read 
dates. Here's the reference:
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q3/0470.html

Either way, the bug still appears to be present, and I'm having trouble 
tracking down the reason. I agree that it's somewhere in tryssl(), but I 
don't know exactly where.


--
Ron Bowes
http://www.skullsecurity.org/

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