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diff --git a/system/cve-check-tool/README b/system/cve-check-tool/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..a86ae9575cd1e --- /dev/null +++ b/system/cve-check-tool/README @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +cve-check-tool is a tool for checking known (public) CVEs. The tool will +identify potentially vunlnerable software packages within Linux +distributions through version matching. + +CVEs are only ever potential - due to the various policies of various +distributions, and indeed semantics in versioning within various +projects, it is expected that the tool may generate false positives. + +The tool is designed to integrate with a locally cached copy of the +National Vulnerability Database. cve-check-tool downloads the NVD in its +entirety, from 2002 until the current moment. The decompressed XML +database is in excess of 550MB, so this should be taken into account +before running the tool. + +Make package list from package database: + ( cd /var/log/packages/ ; ls | rev | cut -d- -f3- | \ + sed -e s/-/,/ -e s/^/,,/ | rev > /var/log/pkgs.csv ) + +Check packages via CVEs database: + cve-check-tool -uNc /var/log/pkgs.csv |