This allows modules that can be addressed by name to register possible
aliases for themselves by defining an `Aliases` constant in the top
level of the module.
This fixes a huge number of hard-to-detect runtime bugs
that occur when a default utf-8 string from one of these
libraries is passed into a method expecting ascii-8bit
[#47720609]
Msf::PayloadSet#add_module does NOT return an annotated module class as
Msf::ModuleSet#add_module does because a payload module is defined as a
ruby Module instead of a ruby Class. Since add_module doesn't always
return an annotated_class, the logic in
Msf::ModuleManager#on_module_load needed to change to NOT use
annotated_class and create #add_module as return [void]. Thus, it is
necessary to pass in all the metasploit module metadata to
Msf::ModuleManager#cache_in_memory instead of assuming they can be
derived from the (payload) Module or (other) Class.
[#47720609]
Msf::ModuleManager#module_info_by_path was not being updated when a
module was loaded, so if a load_module was called again, say during
start up of prosvc, the module would reload even though there was no
change in the file because file_changed? couldn't find an entry for the
module's path in module_info_by_path.
Instead of deleting all non-symbolics before the re-adding phase of
PayloadSet#recalculate, store a list of old module names, populate a
list of new ones during the re-adding phase, and finally remove any
non-symbolic module that was in the old list but wasn't in the new list.
Also includes a minor refactoring to make ModuleManager its own thing
instead of being an awkard subclass of ModuleSet. Now PayloadSet doesn't
need to know about the existence of framework.modules, which makes the
separation a little more natural.
[FixRM #7037]
[#36737359]
Refactor the behavior of loading symbolic modules from cache by renaming
methods so it's clearer what they do and ensure that cached modules from
Fastlibs and directories can both be loaded, which was not previously
possible since the demand_load_module only called load_module_from_file.
[#36737359]
On Linux, some of the unqualified constants that resolve on Mac OS X,
don't resolve, so to prevent errors (and because I can't justify why the
unqualified constants should resolve on OS X), I'm qualifying all the
Msf constants that are referenced in the code I've refactored.
[#36737359]
When starting msfconsole, 'bundler/setup' is not required, the
'msf/env/gemcache' is required instead. Unlike 'bundler/setup' the
msf/env gemcache does not do the automatic requires for gems in the
cache, so explicit requires on 'active_support/concern' is needed to get
ActiveSupport::Concern defined. (I could have done require
'active_support' to match the behavior of 'bundler/setup', but a smaller
require seemed more appropriate.
[Fixes#36737359]
Refactor Msf::ModuleManager into concerns so its easier to understand and
duplicate code can be made DRY. The refactoring also ensures that when
loading from directories, Fastlibs, or reloading, the wrapper module will
always be named so that activesupport/dependencies will function.
Dean Welch