Re: vnsprintf returned -1 in log_vwrite -- bizarre. Quitting.

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:05:15PM +0100, schochow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday I discovered a problem with Nessus 4.20 on Windows XP Professional 
> SP2.
> While scanning several hosts behind a cisco PIX 7.x firewall I got the error 
> "vnsprintf returned -1 in log_vwrite -- bizarre. Quitting.".
> The command line at first was "nmap -sS -sV -O -PI -oN <file> <target>", due 
> to this problem I modified those options.
> I tried -sT instead of -sS, since it didn?t work either I tried scanning 
> without OS detection, it also didn't work.
> Seems the PIX did something like generic application proxing, with nessus I 
> saw thousends of open ports per host.

Can you still reproduce the problem?  If you remove the "-oN <file>"
option, does the error go away?

Cheers,
-F

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