- Security Auditing Utility for C, C++, PHP, Perl, and Python code - RATS

RATS is a security auditing utility for C, C++, PHP, Perl, and Python code. RATS scans source code, finding potentially dangerous function calls. The goal of rats is not to definitively find bugs (yet), but to provide a reasonable starting point for performing manual security audits.

The initial vulnerability database is taken directly from things that could be easily found when starting with the book, "Building Secure Software" by Viega and McGraw.

Installing RATS:
Open the terminal and type following command to install RATS:
sudo apt-get install rats
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