Skipfish - No such file or directory

A play around with Skipfish to see if I can automate security scans

I wanted to play about with Google’s Skipfish to see if it could automate any of my security scans and grabbed the source code from the code library.

When I tried to make the file whilst running Ubuntu 9.10 I was presented with the following error:

cc -L/usr/local/lib/ -L/opt/local/lib skipfish.c -o skipfish -O3 -Wno-format -Wall -funsigned-char -g -ggdb -I/usr/local/include/ -I/opt/local/include/ -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 \
http_client.c database.c crawler.c analysis.c report.c -lcrypto -lssl -lidn -lz
In file included from crawler.h:26,
from skipfish.c:39:
http_client.h:26:25: error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from crawler.h:26,
from skipfish.c:39:
http_client.h:189: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘SSL_CTX’
skipfish.c: In function ‘main’:
skipfish.c:154: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘SSL_library_init’
http_client.c:37:25: error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
http_client.c:38:25: error: openssl/err.h: No such file or directory
http_client.c:39:18: error: idna.h: No such file or directory
http_client.c:40:18: error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
In file included from database.h:29,
from http_client.c:45:
http_client.h:189: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘SSL_CTX’
http_client.c: In function ‘parse_url’:
http_client.c:285: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘idna_to_ascii_8z’
http_client.c:285: error: ‘IDNA_SUCCESS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
http_client.c:285: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
http_client.c:285: error: for each function it appears in.)
http_client.c: In function ‘parse_response’:
http_client.c:1516: error: ‘z_stream’ undeclared (first use in this function)
http_client.c:1516: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘d’
http_client.c:1521: error: ‘d’ undeclared (first use in this function)
http_client.c:1531: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘inflateInit2’
http_client.c:1531: error: ‘Z_OK’ undeclared (first use in this function)å
http_client.c:1532: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘inflateEnd’å
http_client.c:1537: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘inflate’å
http_client.c:1537: error: ‘Z_FINISH’ undeclared (first use in this function)å
http_client.c:1540: error: ‘Z_BUF_ERROR’ undeclared (first use in this function)
http_client.c:1540: error: ‘Z_STREAM_END’ undeclared (first use in this function)
http_client.c: In function ‘destroy_unlink_conn’:
http_client.c:1636: error: ‘struct conn_entry’ has no member named ‘q’

CONTINUED…

http_client.c:2188: error: ‘struct conn_entry’ has no member named ‘next’
http_client.c:2192: error: ‘struct conn_entry’ has no member named ‘q’
In file included from database.c:33:
http_client.h:26:25: error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from database.c:33:
http_client.h:189: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘SSL_CTX’
In file included from crawler.c:30:
http_client.h:26:25: error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from crawler.c:30:
http_client.h:189: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘SSL_CTX’
In file included from analysis.c:28:
http_client.h:26:25: error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from analysis.c:28:
http_client.h:189: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘SSL_CTX’
analysis.c: In function ‘maybe_xsrf’:
analysis.c:397: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘time’
In file included from report.c:33:
http_client.h:26:25: error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from report.c:33:
http_client.h:189: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘SSL_CTX’
make: *** [skipfish] Error 1

Some digging about made me realise this is a fairly common problem even if your machine has a fairly good set of dependencies downloaded.

If you run the following command it should act as a catchall and set you up to be able to play with this tool.

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev build-essential zlibc zlib-bin libidn11-dev libidn11

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