Re: tools to scan source code

[Joachim Schipper <j.schipper () math uu nl>]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:30:56PM +0700, Wahyu Wijaya H. wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i got involved in some web application development using php and
> mysql. i got responsibility to check for vulnerability that may exist.
> is there any tool that can help me? i mean any tool that could scan
> the entire source code to find any vulnerability, because auditing all
> source code seems overwhelming to me :-) plus that i am no fluent in
> php language.

This is not what you are looking for, but there definitely *are* tools
to check for common mistakes (SQL injection, XSS, &c). Something like
Nikto may or may not be a good starting point; it's not something I'm
too interested in, myself, but it might catch some mistakes.

                Joachim

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