metasploit is crash in rbreadline.rb with a tab key type.

[nixawk]

In [auxiliary/scanner/ssh/ssh_login],
When the parameter "PASS_FILE" is set to "/home/notfound/share/top10000password.txt" with a Tab key type, Metasploit is crash.

[notfound@core metasploit-framework]$ uname -a
Linux core 3.18.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 27 20:45:02 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[notfound@core metasploit-framework]$ ./msfconsole 
[*] Starting the Metasploit Framework console...|

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+ -- --=[ 1390 exploits - 789 auxiliary - 226 post        ]
+ -- --=[ 356 payloads - 37 encoders - 8 nops             ]
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msf > use auxiliary/scanner/ssh/ssh_login

msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > show options 

Module options (auxiliary/scanner/ssh/ssh_login):

   Name              Current Setting  Required  Description
   ----              ---------------  --------  -----------
   BLANK_PASSWORDS   false            no        Try blank passwords for all users
   BRUTEFORCE_SPEED  5                yes       How fast to bruteforce, from 0 to 5
   DB_ALL_CREDS      false            no        Try each user/password couple stored in the current database
   DB_ALL_PASS       false            no        Add all passwords in the current database to the list
   DB_ALL_USERS      false            no        Add all users in the current database to the list
   PASSWORD                           no        A specific password to authenticate with
   PASS_FILE                          no        File containing passwords, one per line
   RHOSTS                             yes       The target address range or CIDR identifier
   RPORT             22               yes       The target port
   STOP_ON_SUCCESS   false            yes       Stop guessing when a credential works for a host
   THREADS           1                yes       The number of concurrent threads
   USERNAME                           no        A specific username to authenticate as
   USERPASS_FILE                      no        File containing users and passwords separated by space, one pair per line
   USER_AS_PASS      false            no        Try the username as the password for all users
   USER_FILE                          no        File containing usernames, one per line
   VERBOSE           true             yes       Whether to print output for all attempts

msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > set BLANK_PASSWORDS true
BLANK_PASSWORDS => true
msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > set THREADS 20
THREADS => 20
msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > set USERNAME root
USERNAME => root
msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > set PASS_FILE /home/notfound/share/top/home/notfound/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551/gems/rb-readline-0.5.1/lib/rbreadline.rb:8438:in `lstat': No such file or directory - /home/notfound/sectools/metasploit-framework/set PASS_FILE /home/notfound/share/top10000passwords.txt (Errno::ENOENT)
    from /home/notfound/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551/gems/rb-readline-0.5.1/lib/rbreadline.rb:8438:in `append_to_match'
    from /home/notfound/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551/gems/rb-readline-0.5.1/lib/rbreadline.rb:6812:in `rl_complete_internal'
    from /home/notfound/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551/gems/rb-readline-0.5.1/lib/rbreadline.rb:6851:in `rl_complete'
    from /home/notfound/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551/gems/rb-readline-0.5.1/lib/rbreadline.rb:4322:in `_rl_dispatch_subseq'
    from /home/notfound/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551/gems/rb-readline-0.5.1/lib/rbreadline.rb:4311:in `_rl_dispatch'
    from /home/notfound/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551/gems/rb-readline-0.5.1/lib/rbreadline.rb:4727:in `readline_internal_charloop'
    from /home/notfound/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551/gems/rb-readline-0.5.1/lib/rbreadline.rb:4801:in `readline_internal'
    from /home/notfound/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551/gems/rb-readline-0.5.1/lib/rbreadline.rb:4823:in `readline'
    from /home/notfound/sectools/metasploit-framework/lib/rex/ui/text/input/readline.rb:132:in `readline_with_output'
    from /home/notfound/sectools/metasploit-framework/lib/rex/ui/text/input/readline.rb:86:in `pgets'
    from /home/notfound/sectools/metasploit-framework/lib/rex/ui/text/shell.rb:184:in `run'
    from /home/notfound/sectools/metasploit-framework/lib/metasploit/framework/command/console.rb:38:in `start'
    from /home/notfound/sectools/metasploit-framework/lib/metasploit/framework/command/base.rb:82:in `start'
    from ./msfconsole:48:in `<main>'

[void-in]

This is a known issue also tracked at https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/issues/4128. Please close this and follow the other thread.

[todb-r7]

Yep, dupe of #4128.