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diff --git a/development/rats/README b/development/rats/README deleted file mode 100644 index e470ebed27..0000000000 --- a/development/rats/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -RATS - Rough Auditing Tool for Security - -RATS is an open source tool developed and maintained by Secure Software -security engineers. Secure Software was acquired by Fortify Software, Inc. -RATS is a tool for scanning C, C++, Perl, PHP and Python source code and -flagging common security related programming errors such as buffer overflows -and TOCTOU (Time Of Check, Time Of Use) race conditions. - -RATS scanning tool provides a security analyst with a list of potential -trouble spots on which to focus, along with describing the problem and -potentially suggest remedies. It also provides a relative assessment of the -potential severity of each problem, to better help an auditor prioritize. -This tool also performs some basic analysis to try to rule out conditions -that are obviously not problems. - -As its name implies, the tool performs only a rough analysis of source code. -It will not find every error and will also find things that are not errors. -Manual inspection of your code is still necessary, but greatly aided with -this tool. - -Example usage - to analyze "main.c": -rats --db /usr/share/rats-2.3/rats-c.xml main.c |