Checksec Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali And Fedora

Checksec Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali And Fedora

checksec

Bash script to test executable properties

Maintainer: Chen-Ying Kuo



Section: misc

Install checksec

  • Debian apt-get install checksec Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install checksec Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S checksec Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install checksec Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install checksec Click to copy

checksec

Bash script to test executable properties

Modern Linux distributions offer some mitigation techniques to make it harder to exploit software vulnerabilities reliably. Mitigations such as RELRO, NoExecute (NX), Stack Canaries, Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Position Independent Executables (PIE) have made reliably exploiting any vulnerabilities that do exist far more challenging. The checksec.sh script is designed to test what standard Linux OS and PaX security features are being used.

python2-pwntools

library
To install the latest version of checksec in your favorite operating system just copy the checksec installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of checksec 2026 package in your OS.