c - Shellcode and format string vulnerabilities? -
In my work, we have many machines due to RH 9, RH Enterprise 3 and some older Linux flavors.
Format string vulnerability "and" shellcode ", I would like to know how to see if Linux is weak for these kinds of attacks (without running attacks) ...
Thanks for the help!
Firstly, a shell code is not weakly, shell code is a small executable code, which is the vulnerability of memory corruption There is a payload distributed as a drop indicator or buffer overflow. It is very difficult to take advantage of the modern Linux system
What do you have to do, this is a yum upgrade
and then you should be good. Just keep your system up to date and all you need to worry about if you want to see if a system is remotely usable, then you should run against that system. If you want to exploit a system, and run a choice of your choice, you can use it.