As the author of Ncat, I disagree that it has "very different output" from
traditional and OpenBSD netcats. Unless you specify -v (verbose mode),
Ncat usually doesn't have any output at all. It silently connects to a
remote system (or listens for connections from remote systems) and relays
On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 23:04:54 +0100 Hilko Bengen wrote:
> > We have users in Kali Linux who have been beaten by this. They use nc,
> > they also need ncat for the extra options it provides, they install it,
> > and then are very surprised that nc is now ncat. From their background
> > (I'm
* Arnaud Rebillout:
> We have users in Kali Linux who have been beaten by this. They use nc,
> they also need ncat for the extra options it provides, they install it,
> and then are very surprised that nc is now ncat. From their background
> (I'm talking about professional pentesters), nc and
Package: ncat
Version: 7.92+dfsg2-1+b1
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Dear Maintainer,
Please consider lowering the priority of ncat below nc.traditional, or
remove it completely from the nc alternatives.
At the moment, there are 3 alternatives for nc:
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