full-disclosure - Automated Vulnerability Scanners

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Message-ID: <e024ccca0602241136v37d6f8d9o71b5027c92a5f94c@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri Feb 24 19:37:06 2006
From: dudevanwinkle at gmail.com (Dude VanWinkle)
Subject: Automated Vulnerability Scanners

On 2/24/06, Q Beukes <full-disclosure@...t.za.net> wrote:
> no, what I was talking about was programs/algorithms that actually
> scan software to find new unknown problems.
>
> i have never heard of anything like this myself nor can't think of an
> efficient way
> of implementing it, yet someone claimed they exist.
>
> I can't find any on google either?

Are you talking about something that looks through the source code for
a bad malloc implementation, or something that will try to go through
the assembly for an off-by-one error?

-JP