Packages

Show vulnerable packages on Arch Linux with arch-audit

With the right tool, arch-audit in this case, we can find any vulnerable package that is installed on a Arch Linux system. Learn how it works.

Discover to which package a file belongs to

With the right Linux software tools, it is easy to find to which package a file belongs. Or the opposite, what files are part of an installed package.

Audit Installed Compilers and Their Packages

Compilers can be abused by attackers to perform the so-called privilege escalation attacks. Here is how to find compilers and secure your system.

Showing Available Security Updates with DNF

Systems running Fedora have the DNF utility. With DNF it becomes easily to install packages and stay up-to-date with security related updates.

Updating all OpenBSD packages with pkg_add

To ensure your system is secure and stable, package management is an important task. To achieve that, use pkg_add to update your installed OpenBSD packages.

Yum plugins: Available plugins and built-in security support

To determine the available yum plugins, we analyze them for our goal: discovering if security support is in the yum plugins itself or built-in by default.

Audit SuSE with zypper: vulnerable packages

Stay up-to-date with security patching is part of a decent security management process. This article looks into vulnerable packages on OpenSuSE.

Auditing Linux: Software Packages and Managers

Article about how to audit and check installed software packages and their security by using the related package managers.