The release of the network security scanner Nmap 7.99 has been published, designed to conduct a network audit and identify active network services. The project code is supplied under the NPSL (Nmap Public Source License), based on the GPLv2 license, which is supplemented with recommendations (not requirements) for using the OEM licensing program and purchasing a commercial license if the manufacturer does not want to open the code of his product in accordance with the requirements of the copyleft license or intends to integrate Nmap into products that are not GPL compliant.
Among the changes:
- New version identifiers for applications, operating systems, and services have been added.
- The used libraries have been updated to OpenSSL 3.0.19, libpcap 1.10.6, libpcre2 10.47, liblinear 2.50, zlib 1.3.2.
- To distribute the Zenmap graphical interface, instead of RPM packages, the universal whl format is used, which can be installed on any system with Python 3.
- On the platform Windows Support for scanning over virtual machines has been implemented VPN-interfaces such as OpenVPN TAP.
- Improved compatibility of the build process with various platforms.
- The NSE script http-internal-ip-disclosure, designed to reveal the internal address of a web server by sending an HTTP/1.0 request without the Host header, has been added IPv6 support and HTTPS, and the accuracy of response processing has been improved.
Source: opennet.ru
