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Re: nmap 6.01 requested address is not valid bug


From: 'David Fifield' <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:14:29 -0700

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:29:18PM -0500, security-lists wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: David Fifield [mailto:david () bamsoftware com] 
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 06:10
To: security-lists
Cc: nmap-dev () insecure org
Subject: Re: nmap 6.01 requested address is not valid bug

On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 10:46:16PM -0500, security-lists wrote:

I still find v6,01 has the "this requested address is not valid," bug.
Can
someone verify?

Platform: Windows XP Home SP3


C:\Documents and Settings\Me>nmap -sS -O 10.250.1.0/24

Starting Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-07-07 22:20 Central
Daylight
Time

get_srcaddr: can't connect socket: The requested address is not valid in
its
con
text.
Failed to convert source address to presentation format!?!  Error: Unknown
error

The message "The requested address is not valid in its context" is still
printed though it is no longer a fatal error since r28874. When this
happens, it uses the address of the interface as the source address
instead.

What is your "nmap --iflist"? Probably one of the interface addresses is
the one causing the error about the presentation format.

C:\Documents and Settings\Me>nmap --iflist

Starting Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-07-10 12:11 Central Daylight
Time

************************INTERFACES************************
DEV  (SHORT) IP/MASK        TYPE     UP MTU  MAC
eth0 (eth0)  10.250.1.97/24 ethernet up 1500 00:0A:E4:D1:43:BF
lo0  (lo0)   127.0.0.1/0    loopback up 1520

DEV    WINDEVICE
eth0   \Device\NPF_{DB60E43C-545D-46C8-B15B-5F28B14B1B1C}
lo0    <none>
<none> \Device\NPF_GenericDialupAdapter

**************************ROUTES**************************
DST/MASK           DEV  GATEWAY
255.255.255.255/32 eth0 10.250.1.97
10.255.255.255/32  eth0 10.250.1.97
10.250.1.97/32     lo0  127.0.0.1
10.250.1.0/24      eth0 10.250.1.97
127.0.0.0/8        lo0  127.0.0.1
224.0.0.0/4        eth0 10.250.1.97
0.0.0.0/0          eth0 10.250.1.3

Can you also please give us the output of
        nmap --route-dst 10.250.1.0 --route-dst 10.250.1.3 nmap --route-dst 10.250.1.10 --route-dst 10.250.1.97

The only strange thing I see in the --iflist output is the netmask of
/0, which I don't suppose is responsible for the error you're seeing.

David Fifield
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