Package: nessus-plugins Version: 2.2.4-2 I've a filter that looks for certain compiler warnings that are generated on 64-bit systems. This filter reported the following issues with nessus-plugins:
Function `get_tcp_svcs' implicitly converted to pointer at nessus_tcp_scanner.c:143 Function `stream_get_ssl' implicitly converted to pointer at ssl_ciphers.c:145 Function `bpf_next_tv' implicitly converted to pointer at synscan.c:433 This means pointers are being truncated, and will likely cause a segfault. Including the appropriate header files should fix this problem. -- dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- Begin Message --->>>>> On Mon, 02 May 2005 14:17:32 -0600, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dann> This one I can't figure out - I can't find a header files with Dann> the appropriate definitions in it. However, it looks like Dann> there is an explicit cast for the return value for each of Dann> these calls. Dann> Bad coding maybe, but is this technically a bug? Definitely a bug. Rememer that: extern int foo (); : ptr = (void *) foo (); effectively means: ptr = (void *) (int) foo (); Thus, the top 32 bits returned by foo() are definitely lost -> major badness. get_tcp_svcs() seems to come from nessus-libraries-2.2.4, where it is declared in libnessus/services.h. Perhaps this file needs to be installed somewhere so the offending file can include it? Similar goes for stream_get_ssl() and bpf_next_tv(), except that they don't appear to be declared at all. --david
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