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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition
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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

by Vijay Kumar Velu, Robert Beggs
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
548 pages
12h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

Identifying a vulnerability using fuzzing

Attackers must be able to identify the right fuzzing parameters in any given application to find a vulnerability and then exploit it. In this section, we will look at an example of vulnerable server, which was created by Stephen Bradshaw.

This vulnerable software can be downloaded from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Kali-Linux-for-Advanced-Penetration-Testing-Third-Edition/blob/master/Chapter%2010/vulnserver.zip.

In this example, we will be using Windows 7 as the victim running vulnerable server.

Once the application is downloaded, we will be unzipping the file and running the server. This should open up TCP port 9999 for the remote clients to connect to. When the vulnerable server ...

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