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}})