full-disclosure - automated vulnerability testing

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From: todd at hostopia.com (Todd Burroughs)
Subject: automated vulnerability testing

>   Most of these are situations similar to the halting problem on a Turing
> machine so you are unlikely to get an error free checker. But if your
> checker complains about all the possible security holes, it will complain
> about nearly every construct used within C programs.

I'm auditing one of our daemons, written in C.  I've run it through
various source code checkers and that is useful, I found something that
could be exploitable using this.  In our environment, it is not a problem,
but we'll fix it and we all learn something.

These tools are useful to find obvious problems or problems that have
a pattern.  Now, aftter using these tools, I have to look over the code
and it cannot be code that I wrote.  I don't think there's a substitute
for serious code review.

If you want to make a better tool, please do, I'll use it and if it's
good, I might help...

Todd Burroughs