-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-8357 2010-05-10 23:31:15 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : skipfish Product : Fedora 13 Version : 1.32 Release : 0.4.b.fc13 URL : http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/ Summary : Web application security scanner Description : High-performance, easy, and sophisticated Web application security testing tool. It features a single-threaded multiplexing HTTP stack, heuristic detection of obscure Web frameworks, and advanced, differential security checks capable of detecting blind injection vulnerabilities, stored XSS, and so forth. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool. Key features: * High speed: pure C code, highly optimized HTTP handling, minimal CPU footprint - easily achieving 2000 requests per second with responsive targets * Ease of use: heuristics to support a variety of quirky web frameworks and mixed-technology sites, with automatic learning capabilities, on-the-fly wordlist creation, and form autocompletion. * Cutting-edge security logic: high quality, low false positive, differential security checks, capable of spotting a range of subtle flaws, including blind injection vectors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #576431 - Package Review: skipfish - Web application security scanner https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576431 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update skipfish' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
