Bad version of Masscan installed from APT

[choupit0]

Hello,

I do not know if I'm wrong but when I try to install Masscan on a fresh Debian version, the version installed is not the same as the apt show package.... Even if I try to install the specific version.

Debian version

APT version -> 1.0.5

Version installed -> 1.0.4

An idea? Is it a Masscan issue or Debian/APT issue? Or it's me?....

[mzpqnxow]

You may want to try which masscan to see if you're actually running a locally built version that you installed somewhere (e.g. in /usr/local/bin)

If that's not the issue, you'll have to send this to the maintainer (looks like team+pkg-security@tracker.debian.org)

Either way there's nothing that can be done for you here unfortunately- even if this were an issue with the version string in the masscan source, it will be the package maintainers that need to "fix" it

[its0x08]

After locating both versions using which command, delete the old one and also check the $PATH variable and switch the path of the old one after the path of new one so in future all software being executed with be searched on that path first and then the next one in case in the first dir the bin doesnt exist.
An example..
old path PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
new path PATH=/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin

[choupit0]

You may want to try which masscan to see if you're actually running a locally built version that you installed somewhere (e.g. in /usr/local/bin)

If that's not the issue, you'll have to send this to the maintainer (looks like team+pkg-security@tracker.debian.org)

Either way there's nothing that can be done for you here unfortunately- even if this were an issue with the version string in the masscan source, it will be the package maintainers that need to "fix" it

Unfortunately this is really Masscan 1.0.4 which is running... You are right, I will try to contact the maintainer.

Thank you.

Edit: Done.

[mzpqnxow]

Thank you.

Happy to help, glad you got it sorted

You can close this out now (I think it reopened when you commented)

[choupit0]

You can close this out now (I think it reopened when you commented)

Nope, my bad. I closed it accidentaly.

[rhertzog]

Actually, your 1.0.5 tag points to a commit where src/masscan-version.h has 1.0.4:
https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan/releases/tag/1.0.5
https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan/tree/83fbdf6fde8f40573381a546d6b27cc78d77cc85/src
https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan/blob/83fbdf6fde8f40573381a546d6b27cc78d77cc85/src/masscan-version.h

But there's no point in fixing anything here.