Bug Fix Advisory nmapfe dumps core when scanning some operating systems

Advisory: RHBA-2000:101-03
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2000-11-06
Last updated on: 2000-11-06
Affected Products: Red Hat Linux 7.0
OVAL: N/A

Details

The frontend to nmap (nmapfe) dumps core when scanning some
operating systems.

When using nmapfe to SYN scan some operating systems, nmapfe will dump
core. The console based nmap application is not affected by this
behavior.


Solution

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:















rpm -Fvh [filename]















where filename is the name of the RPM.

Updated packages

Red Hat Linux 7.0
i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/nmap-2.54BETA7-2.i386.rpm
Missing file		     88551e87200bec16b40802fb2975ad6f
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/nmap-frontend-2.54BETA7-2.i386.rpm
Missing file		     aea850f2428bea54139471d6302fc3c9
 

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

20199 - nmapfe dumps core when scanning a Solaris 7 box


References

Thanks to Sarantis <paskalis@di.uoa.gr> for reporting this
through Bugzilla.

Keywords

core

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