Package: nmap Version: 6.00-0.2 Severity: important nmap errors out at startup if it is run as root and the system has any network interface which is in monitor mode:
root@cascade:~# nmap scanme.nmap.org Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-12-20 16:26 EST route_dst_netlink: can't find interface "eth0" root@cascade:~# ifconfig mon.wlan0 mon.wlan0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr F8-D1-11-19-DD-F6-B0-1E-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:266716 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:63082415 (60.1 MiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) This bug is fixed upstream in nmap-6.01. Here is the relevant changelog entry: o Fixed a bug that caused Nmap to fail to find any network interface when at least one of them is in the monitor mode. The fix was to define the ARP_HRD_IEEE80211_RADIOTAP 802.11 radiotap header identifier in the libdnet-stripped code. Network interfaces that are in this mode are used by radiotap for 802.11 frame injection and reception. The bug was reported by Tom Eichstaedt and Henri Doreau. http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q2/449 http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q2/478 [Djalal Harouni, Henri Doreau] -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages nmap depends on: ii libc6 2.13-37 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4 ii liblinear1 1.8+dfsg-1 ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.5-4 ii libpcap0.8 1.3.0-1 ii libpcre3 1:8.30-5 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1c-4 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4 ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1 nmap recommends no packages. nmap suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
