Re: Zenmap not terminating properly on Windows

[Nick Marsh <goaliefight () gmail com>]

One thing to keep in mind here is that I didn't kill Zenamp. It was a clean
exit. Also, I clicked the cancel button which SHOULD have terminated the
subprocess regardless of weather or not I closed Zenamp.

Nick


On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:56 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:52:51AM -0500, Nick Marsh wrote:
> > Today I was running the Nmap 5.0 package on Windows Vista (SP2 - 64-bit)
> and
> > performed a Zenmap "quick scan plus" on 10.10.1-12.1-10.
> >
> > I canceled the scan and closed Zenmap when I discovered that it was
> DOSing
> > my firewall/router/ids. After closing Zenmap I continued to have
> problems.
> > In viewing the logs on my firewall/router/ids it appeared that my machine
> > was still actively scanning even though Zenmap was closed.
> >
> > I had to reboot my PC to make it stop. I'm not too concered about it, but
> I
> > wanted to let you know. BTW I'm new here so I hope this isn't a duplicate
> > report.
>
> I think this has the same cause as the problem with & in a file name on
> Windows reported in http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q3/0604.html,
> namely, that on Windows the Nmap subprocess is spawned with shell = True.
> This done to avoid having a terminal window open every time you run a
> scan in Zenmap, but as a side effect it means that when the subprocess
> is killed, it only kills the shell and not the nmap process that is
> running in the shell.
>
> Does someone have an idea of how to solve this? Is there a Python way to
> run a terminal program without opening a terminal window? To see what I
> mean, edit zenmapCore/NmapCommand.py and change the line
>
> shell_state = (sys.platform == "win32")
>
> to
>
> shell_state = True
>
> David Fifield

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