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[GTG] Re: [ITP] rats 2.1 -- Rough Auditing Tool for Security
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:17:24 +0200
- Subject: [GTG] Re: [ITP] rats 2.1 -- Rough Auditing Tool for Security
- References: <odelewvf.fsf@blue.sea.net>
>>>>> Jari Aalto writes:
> Included in Debian stable:
> http://packages.debian.org/rats
> Jari
> sdesc: "Rough Auditing Tool for Security"
> ldesc: "The Rough Auditing Tool for Security, is a security auditing
> utility for C, C++, php, perl, and python code. RATS scans source
> code, finding potentially dangerous function calls. The goal of rats
> is not to definitively find bugs (yet), but to provide a reasonable
> starting point for performing manual security audits. The initial
> vulnerability database is taken directly from things that could be
> easily found when starting with the book, "Building Secure Software"
> by Viega and McGraw."
> category: Devel Utils
> requires: cygwin libexpat0
> a) manual
> wget \
> http://cygwin.cante.net/rats/rats-2.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \
> http://cygwin.cante.net/rats/rats-2.1-1.tar.bz2 \
> http://cygwin.cante.net/rats/setup.hint \
Builds fine from source and Packaging looks good.
GTG
Volker