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Fedora Security Spin
Goals
- To provide a fully functional livecd based on Fedora for use in security auditing, forensics, and penetration testing.
Features
- All of the security features and tools Fedora has to offer
- Ability to install directly to hard disk or usb drives
- Read-write rootfs so it's possible to install software while the livecd is running
- Minimal openbox desktop, with a customized menu (Screenshot)
Spinning your own
$ hg clone http://hg.lewk.org/security-livecd
Making changes to the LiveCD is as simple as modifying the livecd-fedora-security.ks configuration file.
Contributing
You can help with this project by writing RPMS for packages in the Wishlist, reviewing existing new package reports, tweaking the livecd configuration, among many other things.
Send patches, suggestions, etc to LukeMacken.
Software
Available
The following packages currently exist in Fedora and are on the Security LiveCD.
| Software | Description | |
| Reconnaissance | ||
| dsniff | dsniff is a collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing. | |
| hping3 | TCP/IP stack auditing and much more | |
| nc6 | Netcat with IPv6 Support | |
| nc | Reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP | |
| nessus | Remote vulnerability scanner | |
| ngrep | Network layer grep tool | |
| nmap | Network exploration tool and security scanner | |
| p0f | Versatile passive OS fingerprinting tool | |
| scanssh | Fast SSH server and open proxy scanner | |
| socat | Bidirectional data relay between two data channels ('netcat++') | |
| tcpdump | A network traffic monitoring tool | |
| tiger | Security auditing on UNIX systems | |
| wireshark | Network traffic analyzer | |
| xprobe2 | An active operating system fingerprinting tool | |
| nbtscan | Tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks | |
| tcpxtract | Tool for extracting files from network traffic based on file signatures | |
| firewalk | Firewalk is an active reconnaissance network security tool that attempts to determine what layer 4 protocols a given IP forwarding device will pass. | |
| hunt | Tool for demonstrating well known weaknesses in the TCP/IP protocol suite | |
| halberd | Tool to discover HTTP load balancers | |
| argus | Argus is a fixed-model Real Time Flow Monitor designed to track and report on the status
and performance of all network transactions seen in a data network traffic stream. | |
| Forensics | ||
| chkrootkit | Tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit | |
| clamav | Clam Antivirus | |
| dd_rescue | Fault tolerant "dd" utility for rescuing data from bad media | |
| gpart | A program for recovering corrupt partition tables | |
| hexedit | A hexadecimal file viewer and editor | |
| prelude | Log analyzer | |
| testdisk | Tool to check and undelete partition | |
| foremost | Recover files by "carving" them from a raw disk | |
| sectool | A security audit system and intrusion detection system | |
| Wireless | ||
| aircrack-ng | aircrack is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. | |
| airsnort | Wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which recovers encryption keys | |
| kismet | WLAN detector, sniffer and IDS | |
| Code Analysis | ||
| pscan | Limited problem scanner for C source files | |
| splint | A tool for statically checking C programs for coding errors and security vulnerabilities | |
| flawfinder | Examines C/C++ source code for security flaws | |
| Intrusion Detection | ||
| aide | Intrusion detection environment | |
| snort | Intrusion detection system | |
| tripwire | IDS (Intrusion Detection System) | |
| Password Tools | ||
| john | John the Ripper password cracker |
Wishlist
Note: the software listed below has not yet been verified to make sure the licenses meet our Guidelines . Please see the NewPackageProcess to help get these packages into Fedora.
| Software | Description | Notes | |
| airsnarf | A rogue AP setup utility | ||
| apf | PF is a policy based iptables firewall system designed for ease of use and configuration | Packager unfriendly. Upstream contacted with no response | |
| autopsy | The Autopsy Forensic Browser is a graphical interface to the command line digital investigation tools in The Sleuth Kit. | ||
| cryptcat | Cryptcat is the standard netcat enhanced with twofish encryption. | ||
| hydra | A very fast network logon cracker which support many different services | Under review (#Bug 461385) | |
| iisemulator | The goal of this project is to create a functioning web server which is indistinguishable from Microsoft's IIS product at a topical level. | ||
| metasploit | The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code. | ||
| rkhunter | Rootkit scanner is scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9%* you're clean of nasty tools. This tool scans for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits by running tests. | In the repository now | |
| sleuthkit | The Sleuth Kit (TSK) is a collection of UNIX-based command line tools that allow you to investigate a computer. | In the repository | |
| tct | Tools for analyzing a system after a break-in | Deprecated (See TSK above) | |
| rats | Rough Auditing Tool for Security | In the repo now | |
| examiner | The Examiner is an application that utilizes the objdump command to disassemble and comment foreign executable binaries | ||
| cowpatty | Audit Wpa pre-shared keys | Under review (#Bug 231011) | |
| scanmem | scanmem is a simple interactive debugging utility for linux, used to locate the address of a variable in an executing process. This can be used for the analysis or modification of a hostile process on a compromised machine, reverse engineering, or as a "pokefinder" to cheat at video games. | Peter Gordon mentioned on a fedora-maintainers thread that he was in the process of packaging this up | |
| sdd | 'sdd' is a replacement for a program called 'dd'. sdd is much faster than dd in cases where input block size (ibs) is not equal to the output block size (obs). Statistics are more easily understoon than those from 'dd'. Timing available, -time option will print transfer speed Timing & Statistics available at any time with SIGQUIT (^\) Can seek on input and output Fast null input Fast null output. Support for the RMT (Remote Tape Server) protocol makes remote I/O fast and easy. | ||
| TrueCrypt | Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux | Questionable license? | |
| honeyd | Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. The hosts can be configured to run arbitrary services, and their personality can be adapted so that they appear to be running certain operating systems. | ||
| arpon | ArpON (Arp handler inspectiON) is a portable handler daemon with some nice tools to handle all ARP aspects. | ||
| labrea | Intrusion detection "sticky" honey pot technology using virtual servers to detect and trap worms, hackers, and other malware. | huzaifas is working on it | |
| OpenVAS | The Open Vulnerability Assessment System is a network security scanner with associated tools like a graphical user front-end. The core component is a server with a set of network vulnerability tests (NVTs) to detect security problems in remote systems and applications. | huzaifas will do it |
References
- http://lwn.net/Articles/225215/. Maybe provide this extension by default?
- http://knoppix-std.org/tools.html