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Category Archives: Free Software
cvechecker 3.0
I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of cvechecker 3.0. It contains two major feature enhancements: watchlists and MySQL support. watchlists allow cvechecker to track and report on CVEs for software that cvechecker didn’t detect on the system (or perhaps … Continue reading
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cvechecker updates
The in-svn version of cvechecker has seen quite a few changes in the last few days. I’m adding support for MySQL to it. This support will be added in three steps: support the same features as cvechecker currently does using … Continue reading
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cvechecker update
A while ago, I got the request to enhance cvechecker with support for providing a list of installed software (or software you want to watch over with cvechecker) even if cvechecker isn’t able to detect that software on your system. … Continue reading
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cvechecker 2.0 released
Okay, enough play – time for a new release. Since cvechecker 1.0 was released, a few important changes have been made to the cvechecker tools: You can now tell cvechecker to only check newly added files, or remove a set … Continue reading
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Helping with version detection rules in cvechecker
The new development snapshot, available from the cvechecker project site, contains a helper script that returns potential version detection rules for your system if the current cvechecker database doesn’t detect your software. The script is currently available for Gentoo (called … Continue reading
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Delta processing in cvechecker
The cvechecker application will support delta file processing as well as higher version matching with its next release. The functionality is currently in version control and I still have to work out quite a few things before they can go … Continue reading
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cvechecker 1.0 released
With only a few small bugfixes between this release and the previous one, cvechecker 1.0 has finally been released. It runs fine on my few systems and I have not gotten any bugreports from other users anymore. It can definitely … Continue reading
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cvechecker 0.6 released
This release makes me quite happy, because it resolves one major PITA I had (performance), but you know how things go. If it works fine for the developer, it’s probably an abomination for the rest of the world. Anyhow, cvechecker … Continue reading
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devops – how hard can it/it can be
Dieter made a good reference to devops and the open source community and (correctly) points out that, even in a more collaborative scene such as the free software communities’, there is still distinction between development and operations. And it isn’t … Continue reading
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cvechecker 0.5 released
A new intermediate release of cvechecker is now released. The tool is reported to build properly on NetBSD and FreeBSD as well (although much user experience there is still welcome), introduces a cvereport command (example output), has lowered its initial … Continue reading
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