Re: BUG: ncat does not log UDP in output file

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 03:04:54PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we've found a bug in ncat (nmap 5.51, confirmed in 6.01). ncat
> correctly receives udp packet and prints it, but it does not write
> it to output file. It works when tcp is used instead of udp.
>
> Steps to Reproduce:
> # ncat --udp --output ncatudp.log --listen 6666 &
>
> # echo TEST | ncat --udp localhost 6666
> TEST
> # killall ncat
>
> # cat ncatudp.log
>
> Actual result:
> the output file is empty
>
> Expected result:
> TEST
>
> For tcp ncat uses ncat_recv which does the logging with
> ncat_log_recv, but because ssl checks are not needed for udp, it
> uses just recv() never calling anything writing to the log file

Thanks for this good bug report. I've added a test and this is fixed in
r28990.

David Fifield
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