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PkgSeek is an open-source package search engine for Linux, BSD & Homebrew. 🔎 1.9M+ packages across 31 distributions: Debian, Arch, Fedora, RHEL, openEuler, openKylin, UOS, OpenWrt, FreeBSD, Homebrew… Compare versions across distros. Check CVEs + fixed versions. File reverse-lookup, dependency graphs, error→install commands. 🔓 Open by default: free REST API + MCP, daily Parquet/JSON dumps, no challenge, no 10,000-result cap. Try nginx, openssl, or /usr/bin/convert at https://pkgseek.com.
Search Linux, BSD and Homebrew packages across Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine, Arch, FreeBSD, NetBSD and more. Compare versions, dependencies, files and sourced CVE evidence in one place.
A growing package index spanning Linux distributions, FreeBSD, NetBSD and Homebrew. Version compare, dependency graphs and CVE data, all open. Browse indexed distributions and newly supported repository targets by release. One package, every distribution, side by side. Spot who is on the newest release and who is lagging, without opening five tabs. Buffer over-read in the ngx_http_mp4_module when handling crafted MP4 files, leading to worker process crash. Memory disclosure in mp4 module under specific configuration when processing a specially crafted media file. Every package page links its known vulnerabilities from OSV, distribution security metadata and NVD, with severity, score and the…from pkgseek.com
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