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Log

January 2009

1: Wrote Ncat tests for --exec and --sh-exec.
2: Implemented caretaker processes for Ncat.
3: Started refactoring http.lua.
4: Changed URL preferences in http-favicon.nse.
5: Redid http.pipeline. Merged Ncat caretaker processes. Had a meeting.
6: Did finishing touches on http.lua. Evaluated kerberos-get-realm.nse.
7: Investigated a reported handle leak in Ncat.
8: Added the http.useragent script argument. Started reimplementing Ncat Digest authentication.
9: Implemented Ncat client Digest authentication. Changed the http.lua header from Cookies to Cookie.
10: Fixed HTTP caching for HEAD requests. Updated the favicon database with the latest dmoz results.
11: Fixed a compiler error I introduced. Let ncat -l -p work. Started debugging an Ubuntu install error.
12: Tested the http-methods script. Added a Squeeze Center probe. Tested a DNS-SD script. Tested afp-showmount. Reviewed a Lexmark script. Committed updates to http.lua.
13: Made Windows error reporting clearer. Wrote tests for Ncat listen-mode Digest authentication. Fixed a crashing bitset bug in traceroute.
14: Attempted a universal MacPorts build on 10.6. Implemented simple Digest authentication in Ncat. Fixed a check for socklen_t. Made Nmap automatically start the NPF service. Added the /NPFSTARTUP=NO option to the WinPcap installer. Had a meeting to work on the 5.20 release.
15: Helped build the 5.20 release. Figured out how to build a 10.4-compatible universal binary on OS X 10.6.
18: Evaluated a Quake 3 script. Added AFP probes. Tested installing on Ubuntu 9.10. Added Ncat Digest nonce expiry and qop=auth support.
19: Fixed SecLists previous/next links. Wrote an SNMP OID decoding patch. Let Ncat handle further connections while an SSL handshake is in progress. Wrote a summary of the Ncat Digest nonce strategy. Allowed Ncat to accept more SSL connections while one SSL handshake is in progress. Fixed SNMP decoding of OID component values greater than 127. Had a meeting.
20: Reproduced an installation bug on Ubuntu 9.10. Filed Ubuntu bug 510211. Again tested and committed afp-showmount.nse.
21: Fixed a zero-byte write bug. Fixed the -sU -sV unknown service bug. Restored http.head's ability to retrieve a body.
22: Added a missing function to http-favicon.nse. Evaluated MySQL scripts. Evaluated a DAAP script. Merged stable changes to the stable-5.2 branch.
25: Tested LDAP scripts. Evaluated MongoDB scripts. Gave a nicer error message when Ndiff can't open a file.
26: Added new Kerberos matches. Changed the interface of PortList::getPortState. Implemented a workaround for Ubuntu distutils packaging. Merged new stable changes to the stable-5.2 release branch. Had a meeting. Helped with the 5.21 release.
27: Fixed IPv6 nameserver segmentation fault. Redid nmap.org headers and navigation tables with CSS.
28: Polished and committed Ncat Digest authentication. Redid headers on the other sites.
29: Wrote ideas for a payload file. Integrated Quake probes and matches. Made the Ncat Digest code work on Windows.
31: Fixed a problem with stdnse.format_output producing blank output.

February

1: Learned about JSON and wrote some suggestions for a library. Confirmed an Ubuntu fix. Did a brief review of some asn1 refactoring.
2: Evaluated OpenVPN probes. Had a meeting. Started running link checkers.
3: Did the site sidebars in CSS. Validated some of the first-linked nmap.org sites.
5–8: FOSDEM.
10: Did broken link removals. Updated SecLists URLs.
11: Had a meeting. Finished site validation and dead link removal. Checked for bad links in the book. Gave MHonArc the ability not to dequote message previews. Made new site logos.
12: Did the AV-related changes for nmap_service.exe. Added NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER handling to smb-psexec.nse. Tested PostgreSQL probe changes. Committed the mac_addr_next_hop NSE patch.
14: Did another review of the asn1 library.
15: Reviewed a SqueezeCenter probe. Fixed an Nsock assertion failure with zero-byte writes. Did further review of SNMP and ASN.1 scripts. Tested LDAP scripts and did some review. Tested revisions to the json library. Did some brief review of afp-serverinfo.nse.
16: Integrated Nping with Nmap.
17: Did review of smtp-open-relay.nse. Reviewed pgsql-brute.nse. Did same handling of -v and -d options. Reviewed NSE raw sockets.
18: Did enhancements of http-methods.nse. Added plain text output to Zenmap.
19: Adjusted ping options in Zenmap profiles. Fixed date indexing to use local time in MHonArc indexes. Reviewed sslv3-enum.nse. Re-reviewed NFS and LDAP scripts.
22: Committed smtp-open-relay.nse changes. Wrote a UTF-16/UTF-8 implementation for json.lua.
23: Wrote some review of json.lua. Had a meeting. Fixed an Ncat segmentation fault. Committed ssl-enum-ciphers.nse. Investigated some Nsock pcap strangeness.
24: Rearranged the SVN web repository. Tested pgsql-brute.nse again.
25: Got to the bottom of afp-serverinfo problems. Found the bug in ipidseq.nse. Fixed an Ncat handle leak.
26: Went back and snwered or fixed some old questions to keep them from falling through the cracks: Scan jamming, Failed to determine the MAC address of bge0, static routes, Solaris 9 can't open interface, XML output and resume, Nsock write_dec. Fixed the biggest problems with running with --interactive. Fixed a couple of script errors.
28: Committed a fix for DLPI devices in libdnet. Committed the JSON and CouchDB scripts, and made some minor improvements.

March 2010

1: Started looking into a write_dec assertion failure. Added WSAEACCES to known Nsock connect errors. Merged changes to smtp-open-relay.nse. Investigated UNC file chooser crash on Windows. Fixed EOF detection on Windows. Started investigating an --exec problem on Windows.
2: Solved the --exec problem on Windows. Made http-methods.nse read the Public header. Changed the output of http-methods.nse. Updated vcredist_x86.exe.
3: Submitted a couple of OpenSSL s_server fingerprints. Wrote a patch for write_dec assertion failure. Changed error reporting in smb-psexec.nse. Had a meeting. Reviewed snmpenum.nse.
4: Reviewed the latest version of pgsql-brute.nse. gettextized the profile editor. Made Nping start the NPF service.