Rough Auditing Tool for Security

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Rough Auditing Tool for Security (RATS) is an automated code review tool, provided originally by Secure Software Inc, who were acquired by Fortify Software Inc. It scans C, C++, Perl, PHP and Python source code and flags common security related programming errors such as buffer overflows and TOCTOU (Time Of Check, Time Of Use) race conditions. The tool performs a rough analysis of the source code.

RATS is free software. It means - one can copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.