arch-audit
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- MIT
- Programming language
- Rust
- Author
- Andrea Scarpino
- Latest release
- 0.1.20
- Latest release date
Project health
Why this tool?
Arch-audit is a small utility that scans the system for known vulnerabilities on Arch Linux. It can be used by users of the Linux distribution to know when to update and what packages have weaknesses. With Arch Linux being a rolling distribution, this may improve the interval or timing of software patching.
How it works
Arch-audit works by looking at the version of installed packages and compare them with a database of known vulnerable versions.
Usage and audience
arch-audit is commonly used for software management or vulnerability scanning. Target users for this tool are security professionals and system administrators.
Features
- Command line interface
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
Arch-audit is known to work on Linux.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a vulnerability scanner.