[GTG] Re: [ITP] flawfinder 1.27 -- Examine source code and look for security weaknesses

Dr. Volker Zell Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com
Sun Sep 30 17:50:00 GMT 2007


>>>>> Jari Aalto writes:

    > Included in Debian stable

    >   http://packages.debian.org/flawfinder

    > Jari

    > sdesc: "Examine source code and look for security weaknesses"
    > ldesc: "Program searches through C/C++ source code looking for potential
    > security flaws, ranking them by likely severity. It's is a tool to
    > quickly finding and removing at least some potential security problems
    > before a program is widely released to the public. Flawfinder can also
    > generate differential reports by pointing it to a patch (diff) file
    > describing the code changes. This way it can be used to determine if
    > the potential flaws found in code have increased or decreased after a
    > commit to a source code management system like CVS or Subversion."
    > category: Security
    > requires: cygwin python

    > a) manual

    >   wget        \
    >     http://cygwin.cante.net/flip/flip-1.19-1-src.tar.bz2 \
    >     http://cygwin.cante.net/flip/flip-1.19-1.tar.bz2 \
    >     http://cygwin.cante.net/flip/setup.hint \


These should read
   http://cygwin.cante.net/flawfinder/flawfinder-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2 \
   http://cygwin.cante.net/flawfinder/flawfinder-1.27-1.tar.bz2 \
   http://cygwin.cante.net/flawfinder/setup.hint \

Otherwise GTG, it builds fine and packaging looks good.

Ciao
  Volker



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