From: 3 shool (3shool@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2006 - 01:56:44 EDT
Well Mike, the customer has already done that level of testing. I mean
running code analysis tools. What I am looking for is a way to
discover security issues rather than small coding bugs as such.
Probably if we have some documentation for .Net PT that will be a good
thing.
On 7/18/06, mikeiscool <michaelslists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/19/06, 3 shool <3shool@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am penetration testing a C# (.Net) desktop application with SQL
> > server as the backend. The source code of the application is also made
> > available to me. Here is what I have done till now:
> >
> > 1. Scanned using Nessus and found that application doesn't have any
> > services running. It just uses Internet for some services and central
> > database for storage.
> >
> > 2. I used Application Proxy to intercept communications to see if
> > anything was suspicious but couldn't find anytrhing.
> >
> > 3. I didn't try Buffer Overflow attacks as it is secured by .Net itself.
> >
> > 4. I know the backend API's but what can be done with those?
> >
> > 5. I tried SQL injection but it seems to be protected even for blind
> > sql injection.
> >
> > Till now I haven't found any vulnerability. Any idea what more can I
> > do? Any other techniques? Any docs?
> >
> > Looking for some help from you guys.
>
> ...
>
> well you have the source.
>
> so, you know, look for bugs. or are you saying you don't know what
> sort of bugs to look for? then why are you a pen tester to begin with?
>
> ?
>
> -- mic
>
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