NetKuang: a multi-host configuration vulnerability checker

  • Authors:
  • Dan Zerkle;Karl Levitt

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of California at Davis;Department of Computer Science, University of California at Davis

  • Venue:
  • SSYM'96 Proceedings of the 6th conference on USENIX Security Symposium, Focusing on Applications of Cryptography - Volume 6
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

NetKuang is an extension to Baldwin's SU-Kuang. It runs on networks of computers using Unix and can find vulnerabilities created by poor system configuration. Vulnerabilities are discovered using a backwards goal-based search that is breadth-first on individual hosts and parallel when multiple hosts are checked. An implementation in C++ found real vulnerabilities on production systems. Tests show reasonably fast performance on a Lan.