Re: Bug in NSE core, I think

[Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>]

On 08/25/2009 07:40 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> Right now NSE uses a table of<ip, Target * (light userdata)>  pairs
> for all the hosts. When we get passed a host table we look in that
> table using the host table ip address (host.ip) for the actual Target
> *. Problem is, we have the same ip address for all those hosts so only
> one entry will be present. Also, the scripts actually did run,
> correctly, against each host but the script output was added to one
> host (for the aforementioned reason).
>
> Is this worth fixing?

I haven't tracked down exactly what's going on, but it appears to cause 
a bug in one of my scripts. I believe it steps from a local variable 
getting whacked, because it's ending up wrong by the end of my script.

That's how I originally noticed this behaviour.

Ron

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