2b8c890467
flawfinder.1: minor reformatting
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2021-05-30 19:05:39 -04:00
428fbf6b02
Make --error-level more obvious in the man page
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The --error-level option is useful in continuous integration (CI)
pipelines. Make it even more obvious in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2021-05-30 19:03:37 -04:00
113483d06b
flawfinder.1: Minor man page cleanup
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2021-05-30 18:56:28 -04:00
bcb5e652ef
Document SARIF defails in man page
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2021-05-30 18:46:50 -04:00
293ca17d82
Note character encoding in README, note cvt2utf
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To help people out, note the potential character encoding issue
in the README (pointing to the documentation for more details)
and note the "cvt2utf" Python program.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2019-10-24 08:22:59 -04:00
f1fdd59da5
Improve docs on character encoding
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Provide better info on how to handle character encoding problems.
As more people use Python3 this is more likely to be a problem.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2019-09-22 15:21:11 -04:00
530a88a395
Change www.dwheeler.com to dwheeler.com
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2018-09-30 21:35:11 -04:00
54039e0bd5
Fix flawfinder man page (e.g., fix the title of my book)
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This fixes bug #11 , see:
https://sourceforge.net/p/flawfinder/bugs/11/
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2018-04-04 11:31:07 -04:00
d7ce082024
Add "--error-level" option for continuous integration systems
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2018-01-27 18:11:52 -05:00
2691ac6de5
Use https:, not http:, for cwe.mitre.org
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2018-01-25 23:52:35 -05:00
f91e3ea60b
Note in man page that the extension .c++ is supported
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This fixes SF bug #10 .
My thanks to philipp for reporting this.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2018-01-25 23:40:36 -05:00
90269a2c75
Add documentation about #if, #ifdef, and #if 0
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-09-24 22:50:10 -04:00
5aa1dec7f7
Update www.dwheeler.com URLs to use https
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The www.dwheeler.com site has long supported https, but I forgot
to change these URLs. Fix that, so that people will use https.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-09-23 20:45:03 -04:00
cead0828ef
Add documentation about encoding
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-08-26 17:51:27 -04:00
09c14ab42d
Note Python versioning issues with pickle in flawfinder.1 man page.
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-08-26 16:51:17 -04:00
b2556b7348
Add some warnings about -P to help users use it properly
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-08-26 15:52:04 -04:00
203115edc3
Update book title
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-08-26 15:28:22 -04:00
58e56cad03
Minor update of man page
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-08-26 14:55:09 -04:00
f9d6e11cdf
Document CSV format further, including the fingerprint
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-07-30 23:56:09 -04:00
41ccb9c0ef
Add CSV option as a documented example
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-07-30 23:39:04 -04:00
5ad5a17034
Make minor improvements to flawfinder man page
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Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-07-30 23:29:36 -04:00
51208ff35b
Document the --csv option in the man page and pdf
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The CSV option is noted in the ChangeLog, and is explained in --help,
but I forgot to add it to the man page. This fixes the man page
and its corresponding generated PDF file.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-07-30 23:23:18 -04:00
872109f230
Change version number to 2.0.0 - use Semantic Versioning
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This switches flawfinder's version naming conventions to comply with
Semantic Versioning. We change the first digit to "2" because
there's a subtle change in how CWEs are reported - see the
ChangeLog or documentation for more information.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
2017-07-29 13:24:25 -04:00
dc04172c52
flawfinder.1: Note that .makepp is also skipped by default
2014-09-07 14:14:34 -04:00
94a20df2ee
flawfinder.1: Tweak documentation about flag syntax
2014-09-07 14:05:52 -04:00
aa2277b862
Add Microsoft banned functions for string copy and replacement
2014-08-09 13:32:37 -04:00
0b432d2791
Change syntax of CWE mapping reports for CWE hierarchies (use "!" for map)
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- The old syntax was very confusing. Now just report
higher-level/lower-level, with "!" after the CWE that is actually
the mapping.
2014-08-09 13:06:50 -04:00
0d56338062
flawfinder.1: Fix typo
2014-08-04 22:49:19 -04:00
36b513af7c
flawfinder.1: Update manual page date
2014-08-03 14:53:10 -04:00
2c383e37a7
flawfinder.1: Note that .git and .svn are examples of directories skipped
2014-08-03 13:17:43 -04:00
7727f10dce
flawfinder.1: Trivial reformat
2014-08-02 22:25:20 -04:00
4159de084a
Document how to find all patterns that do NOT have a CWE mapping.
2014-08-02 22:05:23 -04:00
f05aa1270e
flawfinder.1: Grammar fix
2014-08-02 21:56:19 -04:00
8f9ccc47ea
Add option "-H" as a synonym for "--html" to generate HTML
2014-08-02 21:50:21 -04:00
4c36be0094
Reorder help information, help and version are really common requests
2014-08-02 21:46:29 -04:00
24b7da535b
flawfinder.1: Minor doc cleanups. Note that --listrules works with -D
2014-08-02 21:39:36 -04:00
3b2f032f25
flawfinder.1: Specially document -QDSC example (useful for tool writers)
2014-08-02 21:07:42 -04:00
d769867375
Clearly document the license (GPLv2+)
2014-07-28 21:58:22 -04:00
7020a47a3e
flawfinder.1: Tweak output so 80-column version looks okay
2014-07-28 21:13:04 -04:00
1ebc5d5afb
Note that flawfinder is CWE-compatible.
2014-07-27 17:16:56 -04:00
a33ae6c62e
Add more wide character rules and refine CWE mapping
2014-07-22 23:17:53 -04:00
bbe7a28ada
flawfinder.1: Clean up man page, esp. option description
2014-07-21 00:00:12 -04:00
564b78b98d
flawfinder.1: Document that hitlists should be trusted to be loaded or diffed
2014-07-19 20:42:37 -04:00
8423c14116
Fix up "make show-cwes"
2014-07-19 19:21:23 -04:00
cfe1a062fe
Tweak mappings to CWE. strlen() better maps to CWE-126 (buffer over-read)
2014-07-19 19:05:49 -04:00
e0c0b9bc8e
flawfinder.1: Minor documentation improvements, including removing blank lines
2014-07-19 18:38:24 -04:00
4156a4199c
flawfinder.1: Refine man page (esp. CWE discussion)
2014-07-19 17:23:10 -04:00
a7a7bb349b
Modify documentation for listrules, and add CWE mapping info
2014-07-19 12:58:15 -04:00
dcf7c7ff40
flawfinder.1: Expand CWE description and make other small improvements
2014-07-13 15:05:55 -04:00
622add482e
flawfinder.1: Minor tweaks
2014-07-13 13:49:51 -04:00
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