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debsecan — Debian Security Analyzer, a tool to list vulnerabilities on a particular Debian installation. More i

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Problem

How to use the debsecan command: Debian Security Analyzer, a tool to list vulnerabilities on a particular Debian installation. More information: <https://manned.org/debsecan>.

Solution

debsecan — Debian Security Analyzer, a tool to list vulnerabilities on a particular Debian installation. More information: <https://manned.org/debsecan>.

List vulnerable installed packages on the current host:

debsecan

List vulnerable installed packages of a specific suite:

debsecan --suite {{release_code_name}}

List only fixed vulnerabilities:

debsecan --suite {{release_code_name}} --only-fixed

List only fixed vulnerabilities of unstable ("sid") and mail to root:

debsecan --suite {{sid}} --only-fixed --format {{report}} --mailto {{root}} --update-history

Upgrade vulnerable installed packages:

sudo apt upgrade $(debsecan --only-fixed --format {{packages}})

Code Snippets

List vulnerable installed packages on the current host

debsecan

List vulnerable installed packages of a specific suite

debsecan --suite {{release_code_name}}

List only fixed vulnerabilities

debsecan --suite {{release_code_name}} --only-fixed

List only fixed vulnerabilities of unstable ("sid") and mail to root

debsecan --suite {{sid}} --only-fixed --format {{report}} --mailto {{root}} --update-history

Upgrade vulnerable installed packages

sudo apt upgrade $(debsecan --only-fixed --format {{packages}})

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