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 dependency requirements and pullcves now only loads the CVE XML …

I've been playing around with kvm (which uses qemu) to try out other operating systems and Linux distributions. Up until now, little progress on that part (not because it is difficult, just little time) but there are a few things worth mentioning. For this post, let's start with a quicky …

The wireless driver developers are actively working on a new wireless toolset called "iw", slowly deprecating the older wireless-tools toolset (which contains the "iwconfig" command). Kasumi_Ninja reported to me in the Gentoo Forums that it would be nice to add information on iw to Linux Sea, so I did. I …

Albeit with less updates than 0.3 had, cvechecker 0.4 brings in internal project files reorganization (more to the liking of the GNU autoconf/automake standards - I think), fixes a databaseleak (instead of memoryleak ;-) bug and introduces a teenie weenie bit more intelligent pullcves command (with multiple return code …

My current personal projects, Linux Sea and cvechecker, are actively being watched by the free software community. For the Linux Sea book, I get nice feedback and ideas on the Gentoo Forums and on the cvechecker application, people such as Nigel Horne are helping out in various ways - including feature …

Just a quick note, I've created and uploaded the cvechecker userguide.

Time for a new intermediate cvechecker release, so here it is. Changes include (beyond the usual bugfixes) different CSV output (with some sort of version support) so that it can be easily used for reporting purposes, removal of debugging/verbose items and added example files for reporting.

I've made version 0.2 available of cvechecker. It fixes some build warnings and also supports the normal "make install" step. The pullcves command now also pulls in the latest versions.dat file. Special thanks to Per Andersson for reporting that the ./configure didn't fail if sqlite3 or libconfig wasn't …

cvechecker version 0.1 is out. This is the first publicly available development release, so it's still far from production-ready yet. However, it is usable so it can now be publicly analyzed to remove all icky bugs and such. I'm not planning (m)any new features (apart from the reporting …

Okay, getting the HP webcam running on Linux wasn't hard at all. Enable Video For Linux (CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) which can be found in the Linux kernel configuration at Device Drivers, Multimedia Support. Then, select Video capture adapters and inside that menu, select V4L USB devices and then USB Video Class (UVC …