How To Install linux-exploit-suggester on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install linux-exploit-suggester on Kali Linux.

What is linux-exploit-suggester

linux-exploit-suggester is:

This package contains a Linux privilege escalation auditing tool. It’s designed to assist in detecting security deficiencies for given Linux kernel/Linux-based machine. It provides following functionality:

• Assessing kernel exposure on publicly known exploits Tool assesses (using heuristics methods discussed in details here) exposure of the given kernel on every publicly known Linux kernel exploit. For each exploit, exposure is calculated
• Verifying state of kernel hardening security measures LES can check for most of security settings available by your Linux kernel. It verifies not only the kernel compile-time configurations (CONFIGs) but also verifies run-time settings (sysctl) giving more complete picture of security posture for running kernel. This functionality is modern continuation of –kernel switch from checksec.sh tool by Tobias Klein.

There are three methods to install linux-exploit-suggester 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 linux-exploit-suggester Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install linux-exploit-suggester

Install linux-exploit-suggester Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install linux-exploit-suggester using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install linux-exploit-suggester

Install linux-exploit-suggester 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 linux-exploit-suggester using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install linux-exploit-suggester

How To Uninstall linux-exploit-suggester on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the linux-exploit-suggester package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove linux-exploit-suggester

Uninstall linux-exploit-suggester And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove linux-exploit-suggester

Remove linux-exploit-suggester Configurations and Data

To remove linux-exploit-suggester configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge linux-exploit-suggester

Remove linux-exploit-suggester configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove linux-exploit-suggester configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linux-exploit-suggester

Dependencies

linux-exploit-suggester have the following dependencies:

References

• linux-exploit-suggester website

Summary

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