76117 2002-09-20  18:38  /37 rader/ RATS Team <rats@securesoftware.com>
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Ärende: ANNOUNCE: RATS 2.0
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Secure Software Inc. would like to announce the release of RATS 2.0.

RATS, the Rough Auditing Tool for Security, is a security auditing
utility for C, C++, Python, Perl and PHP code. RATS scans source
code, finding potentially dangerous function calls. The goal of this
project is not to definitively find bugs. The current goal is to
provide a reasonable starting point for performing manual security
audits. RATS is released under version 2 of the GNU Public License
(GPL).


New in this version of RATS:

RATS can now descend through directories recursively, analyzing any
supported source code it finds.

Ability to output results as HTML or XML.

Result output can contain the line of code that caused each problem
to be reported, along with the column number in the source file the
problem was detected at.

RATS will now report various statistics at the end of the reporting
phase, including total time spend on the analysis, and number of
source lines analyzed.


Various database additions.

A new database file, rats-openssl, which aids in analyzing any code
that utilizes the OpenSSL C API. (Thanks to Ben Laurie for
contributing this database)


To download RATS, please visit http://www.securesw.com/rats/
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