cvehound 0.1.1

A tool to check linux kernel source dump for known CVEs

CVEhound

CVEhound is a tool for checking linux sources for known CVEs. The tool is based on coccinelle rules and grep patterns. The tool checks sources for vulnerable code patterns of known CVEs and missing fixes for them.

Prerequisites

• Python 3 (>=3.6)
• pip (Python package manager)
• grep with pcre support (-P flag)
• coccinelle (>= 1.0.8)

On Fedora:

$ sudo dnf install python3-pip coccinelle

Installation

To install the latest stable version just run the following command:

$ python3 -m pip install --user cvehound

For development purposes you may install cvehound in "editable" mode directly from the repository (clone it on your computer beforehand):

$ pip install -e .

How to use

The simplest way to start using CVEhound is to run the following command:

$ cvehound --dir ~/workspace/linux --verbose

where dir should point to linux kernel sources. CVEhound will check the sources for all cve patterns that you can find in cve dir. To check the sources for particular CVEs one can use:

$ cvehound --dir ~/workspace/linux --cve CVE-2020-27194 CVE-2020-29371