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Re: Reverse Shell Without Enabling Netcat's "GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE"


From: 545945 <545945 () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:25:30 -0400

Funny I actually saw your reply before my original post with the
method in it was posted.  The question was he wanted the easiest
method using Netcat.  On a system that you may not have a lot of
access to (i.e. one you are running an exploit against) downloading
cryptcat and running that would be a lot harder since it is not
included in any of the standard *Nix distros, where as Netcat usually
is.  So the goal is to get a reverse shell using as little effort as
possible and if the ability exists without having to run a bunch of
commands on a remote server then why not.  But you are correct as I
stated in the original post, there is more than one way to do this.
In the end it is the results that make them happy getting there is
one's own choice.



On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff () gmail com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:01 PM, 545945 <545945 () gmail com> wrote:
     Recently a friend of mine asked me a seemingly simple question.  What
is the easiest method to get a reverse shell from a *nix based system using
Netcat.  He then added a caveat, that he did not want worry about
recompiling the source to enable the "GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE" option that
allows you to bind a shell using "-e".  My first thought was to say "Dude go
check Google and stop bothering me with this piddly shit", however I have in
the past had this same discussion with others and trying to construct a
Google search string and get meaningful results on this subject can prove
very irritating.  Because of this I gave in and told him the method I use
which is laid out below.  I then had the thought that I should post it
somewhere else so it was a little easier for the next person to find.  I say
"somewhere else" because I can only assume that I am not the first person to
post this method.

<snip>

Or you could just grab cryptcat and be done with it, if I understand
what you're after.

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