Version 1.1 of RATS, the Rough Auditing Tool for Security has been released. RATS is a source code auditing tool. It will scan C, Perl and Python source code and flag common security related programming mistakes. Using RATS can greatly aid source audits, allowing the auditor to quickly find known problem areas within the code. Version 1.1 is BETA software. The next stable release will be 1.2. New in version 1.1: Ability to scan Perl programs for vulnerabilites. Ability to scan Python programs for vulnerabilities. Visit http://www.securesw.com/rats/ to download RATS. Please send bug reports and other comments to the RATS development team at rats@securesw.com. This address can also be used to submit your own additions to the vulnerabilty databases.
