Does this app exist?

April 7, 2009 9:24 AM

Aggregated security updates for web applications - does this exist?

Are there any sites out there that aggregate a list of security patches for commonly used web software (eg. Joomla, WordPress, phpBB etc)

I did some googling but I couldn't find anything. Ideally I'm looking for a site that offers an xml feed of all the latest versions of any web applications that a site might be running.

posted by missmagenta to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

@missmagenta - Not that I know of, but it's an interesting idea and probably wouldn't be too hard to implement. Maybe I'll give it a shot
posted by crayz at 12:46 PM on April 7, 2009

You can go to the National Vulnerability Database or Secunia and use the search engine(s) manually or take advantage of Cassandra to have notifications e-mailed to you automagically.

I'm not aware of any feeds off the top of my head, but it would be dirt simple to turn e-mail notices into an RSS/XML feed.

SCAP may be of use as well.
posted by hrbrmstr at 2:48 PM on April 7, 2009