bfbtester command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

bfbtester: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bfbtester: command not found

Solutions to bfbtester: command not found

How To Fix bfbtester: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bfbtester is provided by bfbtester package.

bfbtester is:

BFBTester is great for doing quick, proactive, security checks of binary programs. BFBTester will perform checks of single and multiple argument command line overflows as well as environment variable overflows. BFBTester can also watch for tempfile creation activity to alert the user of any programs using unsafe tempfile names. While BFBTester can not test all overflows in software, it is useful for detecting initial mistakes that can red flag dangerous software.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install bfbtester

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install bfbtester.

sudo apt -y install bfbtester

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install bfbtester

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix bfbtester command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.