Re: nmap core dumps

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 02:20:10PM -0400, Ismail Mehdi wrote:
> Hi,
> Were are seeing occasional core dumps with nmap:
>
> Core was generated by `nmap -v -sS -O -F -oN
> /opt/CSCOcpm/logs/nmap.log --append -output -oX - ip-removed'.
> Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
> [New process 27879]
> #0  0xb7f82410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xb7f82410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb7d24df0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2  0xb7d26701 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #3  0xb7d1e26b in __assert_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #4  0x080d76e2 in xml_end_tag ()
> #5  0x0808e018 in fatal ()
> #6  0x0809fa35 in log_vwrite ()
> #7  0x0809faef in log_write ()
> #8  0x080d73d1 in xml_attribute ()
> #9  0x080a5629 in printportoutput ()
> #10 0x080856e4 in nmap_main ()
> #11 0x08080b9b in main ()
> (gdb)
>
> This is nmap:
>  nmap -v
> Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-04-25 12:22 UTC

Thanks for this report. I think that this has been fixed in Subversion.
See this previous discussion: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q1/513.

David Fifield
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