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 cverules_gentoo) but other distributions can be easily added. The actual logic for detection is distribution-agnostic (the script cvegenversdat) so it shouldn't be too much of a problem for other distributions to be supported as well.

Note that the script isn't very fast (it's not intended to be) nor has a very high accuracy rate. After all, it does use generic regular expressions to try. The idea is that deployments on systems that have software I don't have on my system can help me with the development of the version detection rules by sending me the output of the helper script.

Next up: tool to auto-generate (part of) the acknowledgements file for reporting purposes - getting information from distribution-specific information. Once that is in, I'll tag it version 2.0 of cvechecker.