- Yersinia (computing)
Yersinia - is a network security/
hacking tool forUnix -like operating systems, designed to take advantage of some weakeness in different network protocols. Yersinia is considered one of the valuable and widely used security tools. As of 2008 Yersinia is still under development with a latest stable version number 0.7.1.Attacks for the following network protocols are implemented:
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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
*IEEE 802.1X
*Cisco Inter-Switch Link (ISL)
*VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)Similar Tools
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*Scapy an interactivePython based packet crafting toolExternal links
* [http://www.yersinia.net www.yersinia.net - official site]
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