Reasons why they should be gone:
WVE:
* wirelessve.org is down.
* Not a single module uses WVE as a reference
BPS:
* "BreakingPoint" no longer exists
* The URL takes you to a login page to ixia. And there is no point
of referencing something people can't see.
* Not a single module uses BPS as a reference.
This patch addresses three observed error conditions in long-running SMB services.
1. A call to get_once() in on_client_data could raise a Timeout exception and bubble all the way up to the dispatcher. This should technically never happen, but gets triggered for zero-byte writes and clients closing their connections. The fix was to handle the exception and lower the timeout. The change was tested with a number of SMB clients to make sure this didn't introduce any regressions.
2. A client could indefinitely keep a connection to the SMB server. The SMB server now disconnects idle clients after 120 seconds of inactivity (configurable).
3. A client could send a large amount of data that was invalid SMB traffic, using up memory as a potential DoS.
Caveats: The idle client sweep occurs every 100 requests or at an interval equal to the idle timeout. A client could fill up the entire connection table on its own, preventing the sweep from occurring by preventing new connections. Fixing this would require a dedicated thread to sweep for idle connections and is a more aggressive attack than this patch is designed to defend against (accidental connection flooding, basically).
On August 15, shuckins-r7 merged the Metasploit 4.10.0 branch
(staging/electro-release) into master. Rather than merging with
history, he squashed all history into two commits (see
149c3ecc63 and
82760bf5b3).
We want to preserve history (for things like git blame, git log, etc.).
So on August 22, we reverted the commits above (see
19ba7772f3).
This merge commit merges the staging/electro-release branch
(62b81d6814) into master
(48f0743d1b). It ensures that any changes
committed to master since the original squashed merge are retained.
As a side effect, you may see this merge commit in history/blame for the
time period between August 15 and August 22.
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
Joe Vennix