Bug 826601

Summary:

ncat does not write to output file with UDP

Product:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Reporter:

Patrik Kis <pkis>

Component:

nmap

Assignee:

Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>

Status:

CLOSED ERRATA

QA Contact:

Alicja Kario <hkario>

Severity:

low

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Priority:

low

Version:

6.3

CC:

hkario, ovasik

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All

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Linux

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Fixed In Version:

nmap-5.51-3.el6

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Bug Fix

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Last Closed:

2013-05-30 15:49:21 UTC

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Bug

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Description Patrik Kis 2012-05-30 15:11:10 UTC

Description of problem:
ncat does not write the session data to output file when the protocol is UDP

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nmap-5.51-1.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
# ncat --udp --output ncatudp.log --listen 6666
TEST
^C
# ls -l ncatudp.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 30 18:06 ncatudp.log

In this test the following command was used to send data to the server:
# echo TEST | ncat --udp localhost 6666
 
Actual results:
the output file is empty

Expected results:
# ncat --output ncattcp.log --listen 6666
TEST
^C
# cat ncattcp.log 
TEST

Comment 2 Michal Hlavinka 2012-06-05 10:20:35 UTC

reproducible in both rhel and latest fedora

Comment 4 Michal Hlavinka 2012-06-19 09:03:17 UTC

Created attachment 592879 [details]
patch to fix this

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2013-05-30 15:49:21 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0881.html