Nmap v5.50 released
Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are available. Nmap is free and open source (license).
o [NSE] Fixed a bug which caused some NSE scripts to fail, due to the
absence of the NSE SCRIPT_NAME environment variable when the scripts
are loaded. Michael Pattrick reported the problem. [Djalal]
o Fixed some inconsistencies in nmap-os-db reported by Xavier Sudre
from netVigilance.
o [Zenmap] Worked around an error that caused the py2app bootstrap
executable to be non-universal even when the rest of the application
was universal. This prevented the binary .dmg from working on
PowerPC. yxynaxen reported the problem. [David]
o [Ndiff] Fixed an output line that wasn’t being redirected to a file
when all other output was. [Daniel Miller]
Nmap 5.50 [2011-01-28]
o [Zenmap] Added a new script selection interface, allowing you to
choose scripts and arguments from a list which includes descriptions
of every available script. Just click the “Scripting” tab in the
profile editor. [Kirubakaran]
o [Nping] Added echo mode, a novel technique for discovering how your
packets are changed (or dropped) in transit between the host they
originated and a target machine. It can detect network address
translation, packet filtering, routing anomalies, and more. You can
try it out against our public Nping echo server using this command:
nping –echo-client “public” echo.nmap.org’
Or learn more about echo mode at
http://nmap.org/book/nping-man-echo-mode.html. [Luis]
o [NSE] Added an amazing 46 scripts, bringing the total to 177! You
can learn more about any of them at http://nmap.org/nsedoc/. Here
are the new ones (authors listed in brackets):
broadcast-dns-service-discovery: Attempts to discover hosts’
services using the DNS Service Discovery protocol. It sends a
multicast DNS-SD query and collects all the responses. [Patrik
Karlsson]
broadcast-dropbox-listener: Listens for the LAN sync information
broadcasts that the Dropbox.com client broadcasts every 20
seconds, then prints all the discovered client IP addresses, port
numbers, version numbers, display names, and more. [Ron Bowes,
Mak Kolybabi, Andrew Orr, Russ Tait Milne]
broadcast-ms-sql-discover: Discovers Microsoft SQL servers in the
same broadcast domain. [Patrik Karlsson]
broadcast-upnp-info: Attempts to extract system information from the
UPnP service by sending a multicast query, then collecting,
parsing, and displaying all responses. [Patrik Karlsson]
broadcast-wsdd-discover: Uses a multicast query to discover devices
supporting the Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-Discovery)
protocol. It also attempts to locate any published Windows
Communication Framework (WCF) web services (.NET 4.0 or
later). [Patrik Karlsson]
db2-discover: Attempts to discover DB2 servers on the network by
querying open ibm-db2 UDP ports (normally port 523). [Patrik
Karlsson]
