Wfuzz eating all ram and freezing Kali

needinfo · 08-23-2021, 10:41 AM

Hello, whenever I try to use Wfuzz in kali (I use rockyou.txt as lists, but I've tried with smaller files, same issue) after a few minutes the laptop freezes. I have 8gb of ram, I can see from task manager that the memory usage rises steadily every second until it reaches full capacity.
I'm a bit of a newbie but I've tried flushing the cache, lowering the number of requests in wfuzz but nothing sam results
Why is it doing that and what can I do about it?

Thank you!

TB0ne · 08-23-2021, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by needinfo

Hello, whenever I try to use Wfuzz in kali (I use rockyou.txt as lists, but I've tried with smaller files, same issue) after a few minutes the laptop freezes. I have 8gb of ram, I can see from task manager that the memory usage rises steadily every second until it reaches full capacity.
I'm a bit of a newbie but I've tried flushing the cache, lowering the number of requests in wfuzz but nothing sam results
Why is it doing that and what can I do about it?

Since Kali is for advanced Linux users, and even then should only be used for pentesting and security audits, how about explaining what it is you're trying to do? Because your previous threads seem to indicate you're trying to hack a website:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ou-4175692706/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...rt-4175559669/

Thread reported.

jefro · 08-23-2021, 02:44 PM

I'm sure there are lots of websites for this information. LQ has no reason to go into hacking.