Description
This plugin finds format string bugs. Users have to know that detecting a format string vulnerability will be only possible if the server is configured to return errors, and the application is developed in cgi-c or some other language that allows the programmer to do this kind of mistakes.
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Options
This plugin doesn’t have any user configured options.
Source
For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, there’s always the source code to understand exactly what’s under the hood:
Plugin source code
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Dependencies
This plugin depends on grep.error_500.
