-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2016-ebf2e01f05 2016-10-18 11:19:25.579297 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : checksec Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 1.7.4 Release : 2.el5 URL : http://www.trapkit.de/tools/checksec.html Summary : Tool to check system for binary-hardening Description : Modern Linux distributions offer some mitigation techniques to make it harder to exploit software vulnerabilities reliably. Mitigations such as RELRO, NoExecute (NX), Stack Canaries, Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Position Independent Executables (PIE) have made reliably exploiting any vulnerabilities that do exist far more challenging. The checksec script is designed to test what *standard* Linux OS and PaX (http://pax.grsecurity.net/) security features are being used. As of version 1.3 the script also lists the status of various Linux kernel protection mechanisms. checksec can check binary-files and running processes for hardening features. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: ###Update to 1.7.4 - Update to forked version - Add missing runtime-dependencies - Add manpage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1240391 - None https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240391 [ 2 ] Bug #1380950 - None https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380950 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update checksec' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ epel-package-announce mailing list -- epel-package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-package-announce-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
