Please, honestly, do you know what every features in this list does, how they could be benefit for you and in which way ?
Or did your choice will *only* be based on the number of supported/enabled features ? Le 17/05/2014 12:38, herzogbrigit...@t-online.de a écrit : > Thank you for all your replies. > I understand that the user is important for security, but it's a difference > whether you start from scratch or you can work with somethink prebuilt. So, > could you tell me, which of the following securit features are enabled in > Debian by default and which I have to activate manually: > > Stack Protector > Heap Protector > Pointer Obfuscation > Stack ASLR > Libs/mmap ASLR > Exec ASLR > brk ASLR > VDSO ASLR > Built as PIE > Built with Fortify Source > Built with RELRO > Built with BIND_NOW > Non-Executable Memory > /proc/$pid/maps protection > Symlink restrictions > Hardlink restrictions > ptrace scope > 0-address protection > /dev/mem protection > /dev/kmem disabled > Block module loading > Read-only data sections > Stack protector > Module RO/NX > Kernel Address Display Restriction > Blacklist Rare Protocols > Syscall Filtering > Block kexec > > For further information go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features > > > Thank you very much! > > Brigitte Herzog > > > -----Original-Nachricht----- > Betreff: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu > Datum: Fri, 16 May 2014 22:04:07 +0200 > Von: "herzogbrigit...@t-online.de" <herzogbrigit...@t-online.de> > An: debian-security@lists.debian.org > > Hello there, > I'm a new user of the great Debian distro for my Desktop. But when I talked > to a friend and I told him, that I'm using Debian (Wheezy) for my desktop > computer, he told me that I shoudn't use it because it is not secure. He told > me to use Ubuntu instead. He explained that with the fact, that Ubuntu has > more security features enabled than Debian (also more compiler flags for > security) in a fresh install. He gave me a link to the following site: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features > > So, I'm very happy with Debian but because my friend seems to be an expert > for Linux, I don't know if I can use Debian. Can you tell me which of the > security features promoted by Ubuntu are also enabled in Debian? > > Thank you very much! > > Brigitte Herzog > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Mit einer kostenlosen E-Mail-Adresse @t-online.de werden Ihre Daten > verschlüsselt übertragen und in Deutschland gespeichert. > www.t-online.de/email-kostenlos > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53773ec0.50...@ixblue.com
