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 cve-check-tool, as its name suggests, is a tool for checking known
-(public) CVEs. The tool will identify potentially vunlnerable software
+(public) CVEs. The tool will identify potentially vulnerable software
 packages within Linux distributions through version matching. Where
 possible it will also seek to determine (through a distribution
 implemention) if a vulnerability has been addressed by way of a patch.