Ticket #685 (new defect)
aircrack-ng gets SIGKILL with WEP dictionary attack
| Reported by: | anonymous | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.1 |
| Component: | aircrack-ng | Version: | trunk |
| Keywords: | SIGKILL | Cc: |
Description
Aircrack-ng 1.0 rc4 r1623 from SVN running on Linux 2.6.31 x64 (Debian Lenny) recieves a SIGKILL during a hex wordlist attack. It appears that aircrack-ng continues to allocate memory until the system is exhausted, then dies, having observed memory usage in top.
user@romic:~/Wireless$ ls -l dictionary.hex -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 531000000 2009-10-02 02:43 dictionary.hex user@romic:~/Wireless$ wc -l dictionary.hex 35400000 dictionary.hex user@romic:~/Wireless$ head -n 5 dictionary.hex 07:30:00:00:00 07:30:00:00:01 07:30:00:00:02 07:30:00:00:03 07:30:00:00:04 user@romic:~/Wireless$
user@romic:~/Wireless$ aircrack-ng -a 1 -n 64 -w h:dictionary.hex packets.dump
Aircrack-ng 1.0 rc4 r1623
[00:02:11] Tested 3614467 keys (got 323 IVs)
KB depth byte(vote)
0 0/ 0 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0)
1 0/ 0 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0)
2 0/ 0 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0)
3 0/ 0 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0)
4 0/ 0 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0) 00( 0)
Killed
user@romic:~/Wireless$
I am currently trying to determine the cause of the problem in the src but help/a solution would be appreciated.
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