Issue of NMAP 7.93 network security scanner, dedicated to 25th anniversary of project

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available the release of the network security scanner nmap 7.93 designed to conduct an audit of the network and identify active network services. The release was formed on the day of the 25th anniversary of the project. It is noted that over the years the project has been transformed from the conceptual scanner of ports, published in 1997 in the journal Phrack, in a full-functional application for analysis for analysis network protection and determination of the server applications used. The release mainly includes corrections and improvements aimed at increasing stability and solving known problems before starting work on the new significance of NMAP 8.

The main changes :

  • Before version 1.71, the library is updated npcap , used to capture and substitute packages on the Windows platform. The library is developing a NMAP project as a replacement of WinPAP, built using modern Windows API NDIS 6 LWF and demonstrates higher performance, safety and reliability.
  • Assembly with OpenSSL 3.0, cleansed of appeal to the functions declared in the new branch outdated.
  • Updated Libssh2 1.10.0, zlib libraries 1.2.12, Lua 5.3.6, Libpcap 1.10.1.
  • in the NSE (NMAP Scripting Engine) engine, which allows scripts to automate various actions with NMAP, improved exceptions and events, as well as the return of unused sockets PCAP.
  • The capabilities of the DHCP-Discover/BroadCast-DHCP-DISCOVER (the client identifier is allowed), Oracle-TNS-Version (adding the Oracle 19c+), Redis-Info (resolved problems with the output of inaccurate compounds about compounds about compounds and compounds of compounds about compounding and the removal of non-current compounds and the removal. cluster nodes).
  • Updated signature databases to determine network applications and operating systems. The obsolete CPE identifiers (Common Platform Enumeration) for IIS services have been replaced.
  • Problems are solved with determining routing data on the FreeBSD platform.
  • Support for the SOCKS5 proxy servers that return the reference address in the form of the name of the host, rather than the IPV4/IPV6 address, has been added to NCAT.
  • The problem with the definition of network interfaces in Linux, to which the IPV4 nucleus is not attached.
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