Full Disclosure: Re: Automated Vulnerability Scanners

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 2/24/06, Q Beukes <full-disclosure () list za net> wrote:
> no, what I was talking about was programs/algorithms that actually
> scan software to find new unknown problems.
>
> i have never heard of anything like this myself nor can't think of an
> efficient way
> of implementing it, yet someone claimed they exist.
>
> I can't find any on google either?
Are you talking about something that looks through the source code for
a bad malloc implementation, or something that will try to go through
the assembly for an off-by-one error?

-JP
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