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Open Source Security ReportOpen Source Security ReportPosted May 21, 2008 13:44 UTC (Wed) by lmb (subscriber, #39048)Parent article: Open Source Security Report
Coverity's source code scanner is a really cool tool. I wish there was an open source alternative.
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OSS alternative Posted May 21, 2008 16:03 UTC (Wed) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link] Agreed. splint is probably the closest. My Flawfinder tool is another OSS tool for scanning code (though it's VERY naive); the flawfinder home page has links to LOTS of related work.
OSS alternative Posted May 23, 2008 6:11 UTC (Fri) by PO8 (guest, #41661) [Link] The Sparse folks are starting to make that codebase do some fairly general checks as well. They have a long-term goal of doing some abstract interpretation based analyses.
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