How To Install fuzza on Fedora 34

fuzza is TCP fuzzing tool to test for remote buffer overflows

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fuzza on Fedora 34.

What is fuzza

fuzza is able to send and receive any initial commands prior sending the payload as well as sending any post commands after the payload has been sent. In order to replicate and triage the buffer overflow, fuzza can be used to generate custom Python scripts for attack, bad chars and finding the eip based on your command line arguments.

We can use yum or dnf to install fuzza on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fuzza.

Install fuzza on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install fuzza

Install fuzza on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install fuzza

How To Uninstall fuzza on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fuzza

fuzza Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fuzza

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fuzza on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.