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cvechecker 3.9 released
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sun 09 September 2018

Thanks to updates from Vignesh Jayaraman, Anton Hillebrand and Rolf Eike Beer, a new release of cvechecker is now made available.

This new release (v3.9) is a bugfix release.

cvechecker 3.8 released
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 27 March 2017

A new release is now available for the cvechecker application. This is a stupid yet important bugfix release: the 3.7 release saw all newly released CVEs as being already known, so it did not take them up to the database. As a result, systems would never check for the new CVEs.

cvechecker 3.7 released
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 02 March 2017

After a long time of getting too little attention from me, I decided to make a new cvechecker release. There are few changes in it, but I am planning on making a new release soon with lots of clean-ups.

New cvechecker release
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sat 07 November 2015

A short while ago I got the notification that pulling new CVE information was no longer possible. The reason was that the NVD site did not support uncompressed downloads anymore. The fix for cvechecker was simple, and it also gave me a reason to push out a new release (after two years) which also includes various updates by Christopher Warner.

So cvechecker 3.6 is now available for general consumption.

cvechecker 3.3 released
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 16 September 2013

I just uploaded a new release of cvechecker to the project files. The release is a (long overdue) bugfix release, but includes two small enhancements: support standard input for the binary list (so you can pipe the output of one command to cvechecker) and the introduction of the CVECHECKER_CONFFILE …