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[GTG] Re: [ITP] flawfinder 1.27 -- Examine source code and look for security weaknesses
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:49:46 +0200
- Subject: [GTG] Re: [ITP] flawfinder 1.27 -- Examine source code and look for security weaknesses
- References: <fy0wm8f0.fsf@blue.sea.net>
>>>>> 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