Re: Wrong XML output in some cases

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 04:37:38PM +0200, Remi Mollon wrote:
> Dear Nmap developers,
>
> First of all, I'm gonna introduce myself.
>
> I'm Remi Mollon, working at CERN, as part of the Security Team.
>
> Thanks to nmap, we do regular scans of (most of) all our devices, using
> the XML output in order to integrate the results in our security
> management system.
>
> In some cases, it seems that the produced XML is wrong, with "status"
> and "hostnames" tags outside a "host" tag, which isn't possible
> according to the DTD.
>
> The bug has been introduced as of nmap-5.30.
>
> The fix is rather simple: put the line "write_host_header(currenths);"
> between "xml_start_tag("host");" and "xml_end_tag();" at the following
> lines:
>
> - nmap-5.51: line 1872
> - nmap-5.52.IPv6.Beta2: line 1911
> - nmap-5.59BETA1: line 1923

Thank you, Rémi, this was correct. The host element was being omitted in
the case of a host timeout. I have applied your suggested fix.

David Fifield
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