Re: Initmatch error with 5.51

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

The problem is with "[." followed by ".]", which denotes POSIX collating 
symbols 
(http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html). 
I'm not sure why this hasn't come up before, but since the order of 
elements inside [] brackets should not matter, I used this substitution 
in vim:

:%s/\[\.\([^]]*\)/[\1./g

...to swap the period to the right side of the bracketed expression, 
which should eliminate this confusion. Turned out to be about 50 match 
lines that changed, though that line (Generic kubiv worm) seems to be 
the only one that could cause this error. Patches for 5.51 and svn attached.

Dan

On 08/23/2011 11:53 PM, John Hutchison wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Whilst playing with Nmap I tried to scan my computer using the -A
> switch to which I received this error:
>
> $ nmap -v -A localhost
>
> Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-08-23 23:48 CDT
> NSE: Loaded 57 scripts for scanning.
> Initiating Ping Scan at 23:48:%s/\[\.\([^]]*\)/[\1./g
>
> Scanning localhost (127.0.0.1) [2 ports]
> Completed Ping Scan at 23:48, 0.00s elapsed (1 total hosts)
> Initiating Connect Scan at 23:48
> Scanning localhost (127.0.0.1) [1000 ports]
> Discovered open port 25/tcp on 127.0.0.1
> Discovered open port 8010/tcp on 127.0.0.1
> Completed Connect Scan at 23:48, 0.06s elapsed (1000 total ports)
> InitMatch: illegal regexp on line 118 of nmap-service-probes (at
> regexp offset 25): POSIX collating elements are not supported
>
> QUITTING!
>
> I thought the problem was from my distro (ArchLinux), and downloaded a
> copy of the stable release, decompress it and did a diff of the two
> files (/usr/share/nmap/nmap-service-probes
> ~/nmap-5.51/nmap-service-probes) and I received no output, assuming
> that means they are the same. I even tried to move the file and backup
> Arch's version but I get the same error.
>
> Just thought I would give you a heads-up, I tried googling but nothing
> came up so I have come to you guys. I wish I knew what was going on to
> at *least* give you a patch.
>
> --
> Heimdal
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