In progress: ============ o We should offer partial results when a host timeouts. I (Fyodor) have been against this in the past, but maybe the value is sufficient to be worth the maintenance headaches. Many users have asked for this. If we do implement this, we may want to only print results for the COMPLETED phases (e.g. host discovery, port scanning, version detection, traceroute, NSE, etc.) Trying to print partial results of a port scan or NSE or the like might be a pain. And if we print some results for a host which timeouts, we should give a very clear warning that the results for that host are incomplete. As an example, here is someone who hacked Nmap source code to achieve this: http://seclists.org/pen-test/2010/Mar/108. o Another benefit would be that it would allow us to clean up/regularize the host output code. Right now there are I think three places where a host's final output can be printed. If, instead, that code just looked at what information was available and printed that out only, we could potentially isolate it in just one place. o This also might let us provide a feature for skipping the rest of an Nmap phase which is going too slowly (I think that has its own Nmap TODO item). Hanging(waiting for further input, etc..): ========================================== o Nmap *poor's man* test suite by expanding on what I already have in /nmap-exp/shinnok/nmap-test-script. o NMAP reports different service results every so often with the same port. http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q2/815 o Review latest revision of Marek's ncat_proxy.patch - DONE http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q2/573 o Commit approval pending Pending: ======== Pending (low priority): ======================= o E-mail nmap-dev with GProfiles /ncrack o Create new default username list: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q1/798 o Could be a SoC Ncrack task, though should prove useful for Nmap too o We probably want to support several lists. Like an admin/default list like "root", "admin", "administrator", "web", "user", "test", and also a general list which we obtain from spidering from emails, etc. Potential: ========== o Consider offering a way to link Winpcap DLLs so that they start the service as needed rather than requiring explicitly installing Winpcap and having it start upon system boot. CACE has offered such a thing for many years as WinPcap Pro (http://www.cacetech.com/products/winpcap_pro.html). If we change WinPcap in this way, we'd presumably want to also change the symbol names as is done in WinPcap Pro. And it would mean that we have to build our Winpcap binaries ourselves (including 64-bit). We might even have to sign our drivers for 64-bit Windows. COMPLETED: ========== o Add a --append-output option to ncat. [DONE - r25737] o libpcre/pcre.h - is cleared upon make distclean thus leaving the SVN working directory dirty http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q2/708 o De-duplicate code by unifying ncat_broker.c and ncat_listen.c code paths, either as a single file in ncat_listen.c or merge duplicate code in ncat_listen.c and keep only broker specific code in ncat_broker.c(it it's a lot of code, otherwise ncat_listen.c would do just fine). o Nmap should defer address parsing in arguments until it has read through all the args. Otherwise you get an error if you use like -S with an IPv6 address before you put -6 in the command line. You get a similar problem (on David's IPv6 branch) if you do "-A -6" (but "-6 -A works properly). o Delve into Lua and NSE and try to write some scripts to get the hang of it and gain a better understanding of the NSE engine in Nmap. o Written two NSE scripts, http-reverse-ip and http-google-email that can be found in /nmap-exp/shinnok/nse. o E-mail nmap-dev with QtCreator usage steps for Nmap -- o Ncat hangs on ssl -> REFACTORING some refactoring left to be done to reduce code duplication http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q2/842 o Commit current switch/ifdef refactoring patch. o Research code deduplication even further. o Ncat chat (at least in ssl mode) no longer gives the banner greeting when I connect. This worked in r23918, but not in r24185, which is the one running on chat.nmap.org as of 6/20/11. Verify by running "ncat --ssl -v chat.nmap.org" o Pending uncompleted SSL handshakes when in --exec* listening mode make Ncat consume 100% cpu(core/thread). Possible solutions: o Listen on the union of the two sets in ncat_listen.c composed of the current set and a secondary one, ssl_pending which should include the pending ssl hanshake sockets. o Timeout ssl handshakes. o Delay adding the exec output pipes to fselect/WaitForMultipleObjects until the ssl handshake has been completed. http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q2/988 --- o Fix ncat.xml(the input for the man page) examples section. - David came up with the final right fix on this one. o Ncat should close its socket and refuse further connections after the first one, if invoked without --keep-open. That's what traditional netcat does too. - DONE [r24197] http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q2/944 o Add TEST in ncat-test.pl - DONE [r24373] o Closing Zenmap without stopping the scan first will leave nmap running in the process list on Windows. [r24308] [Actually, Zenmap was unable to kill the nmap scan processes at all on Windows] o Zenmap should wait for the return exit code of the nmap scanning subprocess upon killing it(canceled scan), otherwise the subprocesses will enter a defunct(zombie) state.[r24235] o Fix build_icmp_raw and build_igmp_raw filling the packet data payload with zeroes instead of the supplied random data, when nmap is invoked with --data-length.[r24127] o Investigate and document how easy it is to drop Ncat.exe by itself on other systems and have it work. [r24242] http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q2/1090 o We should also look into the dependencies of Nmap and Zenmap. It may be instructive to look at "Portable Firefox" (http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable) which is built using open source technology from portableapps.com, or look at "The Network Toolkit" by Cace (http://www.cacetech.com/products/network_toolkit.html). o For Nmap and Nping, we may want to improve our Winpcap to load as a DLL without requiring installation. There is a separate TODO item for that. o --max-conns is broken in latest svn -> fixed in r24130, other two bugs discovered: o --max-conns 0 kills ncat with a glibc assertion error on calloc with zero as nmemb(??) at: init_fdlist(&broadcast_fdlist, o.conn_limit); o When killing the first initiated connection on --max-conns > 1 Ncat: Ncat: Program bug: fd (5) not on list. QUITTING. [DONE]The previous two bugs were introduced in r24130, they are now fixed in r24193.