Bash: How to open TCP/UDP sockets

How to open TCP/UDP sockets using a built-in feature in Bash ? Bash shell has a built-in feature that allows to open TCP/UDP sockets using a simple syntax. This is very useful when tools like netcat are not installed or we don’t have the permission to use it. The syntax is $ exec...

Security Oriented Fuzzer: American Fuzzy Lop

American fuzzy lop is a security-oriented fuzzer that employs a novel type of compile-time instrumentation and genetic algorithms to automatically discover clean, interesting test cases that trigger new internal states in the targeted binary. This substantially improves the functional coverage fo...

Sun Java Runtime Environment Mutable InetAddress Socket Policy Violation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to violate security policies on vulnerable installations of Sun Java Runtime. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must run a malicious applet. The specific flaw allows malicious applets to connect to network...

CVE-2004-0256

GNU libtool before 1.5.2, during compile time, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on libtool directories in /tmp...

Symlink Vulnerability in GNU libtool <1.5.2

Vulnerable: libtool 1.5.2 Not Vulnerable: libtool 1.5.2 Project website: http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html Description of libtool from website: "GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable...