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...Typical usage is simple and lightweight: run the script on the target (or pass a manual kernel string) and review the ranked list of candidate exploits and references.

Linux Exploit Suggester is a lightweight Perl script designed to help security testers quickly identify local Linux kernel privilege-escalation candidates by matching the host’s kernel/OS release string against a curated list of known vulnerable versions. It runs uname -r by default (or accepts a manual -k kernel string) and prints a suggestive, human-readable list of possible exploit names, CVEs, and references that match that kernel version. ...

The Entropy Gathering Daemon is a portable perl script which provides a source of randomness on systems that lack an in-kernel /dev/random. GnuPG, OpenSSH, and the OpenSSL toolkit can use EGD to seed their random number generators.