On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 12:57, Yven Johannes Leist wrote: > Well, I for one would love to see a security announcement one day, which > contains something like: > > "All users running the standard Debian kernel are not affected, since the > special security features the Debian kernel contains prevent the > exploit/attack in question." :)
To get this we need support for PIE executables, and preferrably something like ProPolice as well. Currently Debian is behind Fedora and is not showing any signs of catching up... -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page