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If there's an http server on my network and I want to find out information about that server, what version of linux, 32 or 64 bit, etc, is there a command I can use to find that information out?
hmm, this is going really slow. I just did what the example had, nmap -A -T4 ipaddress. It gave me a warning about giving up on a port early, than said Connect Scan Timing: 23.69% done, about a half hour remaining.
Our final project in my CS class is to attempt to do a buffer exploit on a fake buggy server that our professor set up. I've been messing around in Red Hat and Ubuntu and have noticed that even though they are both linux, when I make a buffer and try to overwrite the return address by going outside the range of the buffer there is a different amount that I have to go by depending on Red Hat or Ubuntu.
Have you checked to see if it is not only distro but version specific? Say RHEL3,4,5? Could you not use your exploit to determine which distro (of your choices) it is?
Wouldn't I be putting my cart before the horse? If the server is running red hat version x and I write my exploit on red hat version y, and so it won't work on version x, I won't be able to use it to find out that the server is running red hat version x.
Are you saying like write versions that work under different distros and just keep trying ones until it works, and then you've found out the distro? I think I'm just not following
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