Re: [SLUG] Security Vulnerability Scanners

["Simon Bryan" <sbryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could try 'Shields Up', it is software for windows but the online probe 
might do what yo want:

https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

> I want to demonstrate that a particular (linux) system is vunerable so I
> can try to get something done about it.  According to netstat -a the
> following TCP ports are listening for connections:
> 
> 1700, 1025, echo, discard, daytime, chargen, ftp, telnet, gopher, shell,
> login, exec, pop2, pop3, imap2, uucp, finger, socks, sunrpc, 661, 7201,
> 7200, www, 6000.
> 
> and when you combine that with the fact it's a 2.0.X linux system that has
> never had any security patches or updates installed, and that all these
> ports are available to the internet with a fixed IP, I'm pretty sure that
> there's a security vulnerability or two in there somewhere.
> 
> 
> Can anyone recommend a good security vulnerability scanner that can
> generate a nice list of vulnerabilities that I can use to try and get
> permission to do something about this?  Either a program that installs
> onto the system being tested or something that can do it remotly would do.
> 
>  - Doug
> 
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