Re: vulnerabilities from pcap file

[Todd Haverkos <infosec () haverkos com>]

Indeed.   And that's basically the gist of passive vuln scanning.
The Tenable white paper talks further in terms of intelligent banner
analysis for protocols that aren't a simple to glean version info from
as http browsers and servers tend to be. 


Josh Siok <jsiok () smp org> writes:
> This is not a tool, but simple example:  You could determine what
> browser and version a host is running from the HTTP headers (User
> Agent).  You could then easily determine if their browser is out of
> date and contains vulnerabilities.  I've never done this, but you
> could probably set up filters in Wireshark to pick out specific
> packets that contain specific header information (like IE7). 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Todd Haverkos
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 9:21 AM
> To: Maverick
> Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: vulnerabilities from pcap file
>
> Maverick <myeaddress () gmail com> writes:
>
> > Hi All,
> > Is there any tool that can detect vulnerabilities that exist on hosts 
> > by looking at the pcap captures of their traffic.
>
> I don't know specifically, but this is the realm of passive vulnerability scanning if you want to do some googling on 
> the term.
> Tenable has a white paper on theirs
> http://www.nessus.org/whitepapers/passive_scanning_tenable.pdf
>
> whether it can a .pcap as input and just be run on that rather than
> doing it in realm time is unknown to me.   
>
> I hope this helps you on the way to an answer! 
> --
> Todd Haverkos, LPT MsCompE
> http://haverkos.com/

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