How To Install yersinia on CentOS 8

yersinia is Network protocols tester and attacker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yersinia on CentOS 8.

What is yersinia

Yersinia is a network tool designed to take advantage of some weakeness in different network protocols. It pretends to be a solid framework for analyzing and testing the deployed networks and systems. Currently, there are some network protocols implemented, but others are coming (tell us which one is your preferred). Attacks for the following network protocols are implemented (but of course you are free for implementing new ones) * Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) * Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) * Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP) * Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) * Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) * IEEE 802.1Q and IEEE 802.1X * Inter-Switch Link Protocol (ISL) * VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)

We can use yum or dnf to install yersinia on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yersinia.

Install yersinia on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install yersinia using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yersinia

Install yersinia on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install yersinia using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yersinia

How To Uninstall yersinia on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the yersinia package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove yersinia

yersinia Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/yersinia
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/ce1a0794cb32736aac43c4870d2cfb69dacd89
/usr/share/doc/yersinia
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/README
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/yersinia
/usr/share/licenses/yersinia/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/yersinia.8.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yersinia on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.