-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-0202 2013-01-04 20:18:23 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : nmap Product : Fedora 18 Version : 6.01 Release : 9.fc18 URL : http://nmap.org/ Summary : Network exploration tool and security scanner Description : Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning (determine which hosts are up), many port scanning techniques (determine what services the hosts are offering), and TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote host operating system identification). Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification, decoy scanning, determination of TCP sequence predictability characteristics, reverse-identd scanning, and more. In addition to the classic command-line nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (netcat utility ncat), a utility for comparing scan results (ndiff), and a packet generation and response analysis tool (nping). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: - use select as default nsock engine - prevents following error: Unable to register IOD #2: Operation not permitted when /dev/null is used as stdin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Jan 4 2013 Michal Hlavinka <[email protected]> - 2:6.01-9 - use select as default nsock engine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update nmap' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
