Securing Linux by breaking it with Damn Vulnerable Linux (Linux.com)

[Posted February 28, 2007 by corbet]

Linux.com has published a review of Damn Vulnerable Linux - a distribution most of us are unlikely to want to run in a production setting. "It's based on the popular mini-Linux distribution Damn Small Linux (DSL), not only for its minimal size, but also for the fact that DSL uses a 2.4 kernel, which makes it easier to offer vulnerable elements that might not work under the 2.6 kernel. It contains older, easily breakable versions of Apache, MySQL, PHP, and FTP and SSH daemons, as well as several tools available to help you compile, debug, and break applications running on these services, including GCC, GDB, NASM, strace, ELF Shell, DDD, LDasm, LIDa, and more."

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