How To Install fuzz on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fuzz on Kali Linux.

What is fuzz

fuzz is:

The fuzz generator is designed to attack certain kinds of software and expose one particular kind of bug common in software. This is the situation where the programmer implicitly makes some assumptions about the data stream that the program will be parsing. If the data stream is substantially different then the program might not be able to deal with it.

There are three methods to install fuzz on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fuzz Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fuzz using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fuzz

Install fuzz Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fuzz using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fuzz

Install fuzz Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fuzz using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fuzz

How To Uninstall fuzz on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fuzz

Uninstall fuzz And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fuzz and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fuzz

Remove fuzz Configurations and Data

To remove fuzz configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fuzz

Remove fuzz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fuzz configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fuzz

Dependencies

fuzz have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• fuzz website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fuzz package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.