Re: Web application Security Scanner

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:10:19 +0400, tgoogle said:
> I need BEST program, which can found Maximum bugs in any custom Web application.

I doubt you'll fine one "best" program, as there's too much diversity.

There's probably someplace running CGI written in COBOL.
And somebody probably has a scanner for COBOL CGIs.

But you'll never find that scanner in one of the "big name" packages, because
trying to scan for *everything* is just too difficult - it's a lot easier to
create a package that does one class of things well (find 90% of injections,
80% of buffer overflows, etc).

If you're lucky, you'll find a set of 3 or 4 tools, which when used together, will
do 95% of the heavy lifting for you.

And remember that although programmatic scanners may be able to do a reasonable
job against certain classes of well-understood bugs (integer overflow, buffer
overflow, SQL injection, etc), they can't find errors caused by a programmer
being creatively stupid (as opposed to just not thinking).

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