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The goal of cvechecker is to report about possible vulnerabilities on your system, by scanning a list of installed software and matching results with the CVE database. This is not a bullet-proof method and you will have many false positives (ie: vulnerability is fixed with a revision-release, but the tool isn't able to detect the revision itself), yet it is still better than nothing, especially if you are running a distribution with little security coverage.

Quickstart

  1. Initalize the SQLite3 Database

    # cvechecker -i
    
  2. Load CVE and version matching rules

    # pullcves pull
    
  3. Generate List of Files to scan

    $ find / -type f -perm -o+x > scanlist.txt
    $ echo /proc/version >> scanlist.txt
    
  4. Gather List of Installed Software/Versions

    $ cvechecker -b scanlist.txt
    
  5. Output Matching CVE Entries

    $ cvechecker -r
    

More detailed installation information available via the installation docs. The homepage for this project.