FYI, Nmap 5.20 Released. :)

diamond_ramsey · #1 26th January 2010, 06:53 AM

FYI, Nmap 5.20 Released.

http://www.linuxtoday.com/security/2010012600235NWSWRL

"...Happy new year, everyone. I'm happy to announce Nmap 5.20--our first stable Nmap release since 5.00 last July! It offers more than 150 significant improvements, including:

" 30+ new Nmap Scripting Engine scripts
enhanced performance and reduced memory consumption
protocol-specific payloads for more effectie UDP scanning
a completely rewritten traceroute engine
massive OS and version detection DB updates (10,000+ signatures)

"The Nmap 5.00 source code and packages for Linux, Mac, and Windows are available for download at the usual place: http://nmap.org/download.html

"Go give it a try! And if you find any bugs, let us know on nmap-dev (http://nmap.org/book/man-bugs.html)..."

http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2010/0

sej7278 · #2 26th January 2010, 01:44 PM

i'd wait for 5.21 with the fixes

diamond_ramsey · #3 1st February 2010, 05:18 AM

sej7278, thank you for your post.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sej7278

i'd wait for 5.21 with the fixes

Very true, I agree.

From the URL, http://nmap.org/download.html -

"...
The Latest stable Nmap release tarball: nmap-5.21.tar.bz2 (or gzip compressed)
..."

are at http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.21.tar.bz2 and http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.21.tgz

Hope this helps.

sej7278 · #4 1st February 2010, 08:23 AM

well it seems there's a packaging bug as nmap.org's rpm's are compiled on centos 5.3.

basically on fedora12 nmap 5.x can't resolve hostnames without the nscd service running:

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q1/389

the fedora packager is supposed to be releasing 5.21 rpm's today, which don't have the problem, so get it from yum

diamond_ramsey · #5 1st February 2010, 08:33 AM

sej7278, thank you for your posts.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sej7278

well it seems there's a packaging bug as nmap.org's rpm's are compiled on centos 5.3.

basically on fedora12 nmap 5.x can't resolve hostnames without the nscd service running:

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q1/389

the fedora packager is supposed to be releasing 5.21 rpm's today, which don't have the problem, so get it from yum

Understood, thanks for the link and yum information.

I'll wait for the yum update to 5.21. :v)