How To Install cvechecker on Fedora 34

cvechecker is Tool for compare packages installed in your system with CVE database

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvechecker on Fedora 34.

What is cvechecker

The goal of cvechecker is to report about possible vulnerabilities on your system, by scanning a list of installed software and matching results with the CVE database. This is not a bullet-proof method and you will have many false positives (i.e. to detect the revision itself).

We can use yum or dnf to install cvechecker on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cvechecker.

Install cvechecker on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cvechecker using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cvechecker

Install cvechecker on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cvechecker using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cvechecker

How To Uninstall cvechecker on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the cvechecker package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cvechecker

cvechecker Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/cvechecker.conf
/usr/bin/cvechecker
/usr/bin/cvegenversdat
/usr/bin/cvereport
/usr/bin/cverules
/usr/bin/pullcves
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/e376e6c8de60da642e97302971b093e7bbfdfd
/usr/share/cvechecker
/usr/share/cvechecker/csv2xml.awk
/usr/share/cvechecker/cvereport.xsl
/usr/share/cvechecker/mysql_cvechecker.sql
/usr/share/cvechecker/report.css
/usr/share/doc/cvechecker
/usr/share/doc/cvechecker/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cvechecker/README.md
/usr/share/doc/cvechecker/acknowledgements.html
/usr/share/doc/cvechecker/userguide.html
/usr/share/man/man1/cvechecker.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cvegenversdat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cvereport.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cverules.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pullcves.1.gz
/var/lib/cvechecker/cache
/var/lib/cvechecker/local

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvechecker on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.