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cvechecker

cvechecker reports about possible vulnerabilities on your system by scanning the installed software and matching the results with the CVE database. This is not a bullet-proof method and you will most likely have many false positives, but it is still better than nothing, especially if you are running a distribution with little security coverage.

Tags	Security
Licenses	GPLv3
Operating Systems	Linux
Implementation	C

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13 Apr 2011 21:16

Release Notes: This bugfix release sanitizes the user defined key before it is put in the database and fixes a runtime problem when both SQLite and MySQL support are requested.

12 Apr 2011 21:41

Release Notes: cvechecker 3.0 brings on watchlists, allowing it to track and report on CVEs for software that it is not able to detect (or that is not installed on your system). Also, along with SQLite 3, MySQL is supported as a back-end database. And if you use MySQL, you will definitely appreciate that the tool now supports multiple client users within the same (MySQL) database.

01 Dec 2010 21:43

Release Notes: This release includes the ability to scan changed/added files rather than the entire system, a command that helps to generate version matching rules, and a new switch to report vulnerabilities of software versions that are higher than the software versions you have on your system.

02 Oct 2010 07:09

Release Notes: A few small error handling and buffer overflow problems were fixed.

09 Sep 2010 11:44

Release Notes: Reporting performance was improved tremendously for recent SQLite libraries. Reporting on found software, regardless of it matching a CVE entry, was added, and quite a few bugs were fixed.