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February 2012 OS detection highlights
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:35:27 -0800
I recently finished a round of about 1,900 OS fingerprint submissions since June 2011. Here is a summary of how the database changed. Line count went from 67041 to 66739 (-302, -0%). Fingerprint count went from 3618 to 3572 (-46, -1%). What?! I hear you cry. The database actually decreased in size. This is because of something that happened in r26218, where a lot of fingerprints got duplicated for some reason. I removed all the duplicates, and that accounts for the decrease. If you ignore the 5,405 lines and 302 fingerprints that were deleted, it's more like: Line count went from 58666 to 66739 (+8073, +14%). Fingerprint count went from 3316 to 3572 (+256, +8%). New vendors: 4G Systems, AirLive, Barrelfish, Bowers & Wilkins, Cyberoam, ETH Zurich, Express Logic, FireBrick, Haiku, Hitron, ITW, Kronos, LG, LaCrosse, Lenel, LifeSize, Marantz, Nexenta, Oracle, PCMeasure, Schneider Electric, Schrack, Sonus, Symmetricon, T-Marc, Teradici, Toptech, Ubee. No removed vendors. Thanks to all the submitters; you are helping keep the database up to date. If you look at the diff (svn diff -r 28048:28107 nmap-os-db), you will see that each round of submissions not only adds new fingerprints, but refines and improves existing fingerprints. Interesting new fingerprints: Fingerprint Haiku R1 Alpha 3 I'm surprised it has taken this long, but this is our first Haiku fingerprint. http://haiku-os.org/ Fingerprint Apple iOS 5.0.1 iOS is what runs on iPads and iPhones. Fingerprint OpenBSD 4.9 - 5.0 OpenBSD 5.0 was released in November 2011. Here is their release song "What Me Worry?": http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html#50 # Oracle JRockitVE (JRockit Virtual Edition) on Virtualbox, which is an OSless solution to provide Java Virtual Machine Fingerprint Oracle JRockit Java virtual machine This is a Java VM that runs on bare metal without an OS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRockit http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17090_01/doc.1111/e15206/introduction002.htm ("Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle JRockit Virtual Edition" section 1.2 "About Oracle JRockit Virtual Edition" because that second link looks fragile.) Fingerprint Nexenta OS 3.0 - 3.0.4 (OpenSolaris snv_130 - snv_134f) Nexenta is OpenSolaris with a GNU-like userland. http://www.nexenta.org/ Apparently both Nexenta and OpenIndiana are ending and converging on a new project called Illumian. https://www.illumos.org/projects/illumian Fingerprint FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 - 9.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.0 was released in January 2012. Fingerprint RF-Space SDR-IP software radio It was neat to see that this software-defined radio runs its own firmware, not embedded Linux or something like that. http://www.rfspace.com/RFSPACE/SDR-IP.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio Fingerprint Barrelfish before release2011-09-02 This is an experimental OS built at ETH Zurich. I don't know of any public servers running this other than barrelfish.org, but you can apparently build and install it yourself. There had been no release yet at the time the fingerprint was submitted. http://barrelfish.org/ We also got service fingerprints for its web server, whose code you can find here: http://hg.barrelfish.org/file/tip/usr/webserver Fingerprint Bluebottle OS Another OS from ETH Zurich. This one seems to have gone by many names over the years, so I'm not sure that I have the label exactly right. http://www.a2.ethz.ch/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebottle_OS David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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