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KALI LINUX NETWORK SCANNING COOKBOOK

You're reading from   KALI LINUX NETWORK SCANNING COOKBOOK Over 90 hands-on recipes explaining how to leverage custom scripts, and integrated tools in Kali Linux to effectively master network scanning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783982141
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Justin Hutchens Justin Hutchens
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Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Discovery Scanning FREE CHAPTER 3. Port Scanning 4. Fingerprinting 5. Vulnerability Scanning 6. Denial of Service 7. Web Application Scanning 8. Automating Kali Tools Index

Validating command injection vulnerabilities with ICMP traffic

Command injection is likely the most dangerous of all known web application attack vectors. Most attackers seek to exploit vulnerabilities in hope that they will ultimately find a way to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. Command-execution vulnerabilities provide that capability without any additional steps. In this recipe, we will discuss how to write a custom script for validating remote code execution vulnerabilities with ICMP traffic.

Getting ready

To perform command-injection testing against a target using ICMP echo request confirmation, you will need to have a remote system that is running one or more web applications that are vulnerable to command injection. In the examples provided, an instance of Metasploitable2 is used to perform this task. Metasploitable2 has several preinstalled vulnerable web applications running on TCP port 80. For more information on setting up Metasploitable2, refer...

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