On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:03:01PM +0100, Knijff, S.A.W. van der wrote: > I'm performing an research about the effects of diversity > on malware. In this research there will be looked at the > effects of diversity within an operating system on malware, > in this case different GNU/Linux distro's. > Cause of the limited time schedule there will only be > tested with three distro's, after this there will be picked > one distro which is tested on different architectures. > There is chosen to work with Fedora Core 6, OpenSuse 10.2 > and Ubuntu 6.10. > Before starting the real-life tests there is a need to make > some assumptions on what will happen when the malware is > run on a system. Here for there will be looked at the > compiler flags that are used during compilation of the > distribution, I'm namely interested in the compiler flags > which enhance the security within the distro. > Also are there any kind of security measurements besides > the compiler flags, for example SELinux, AppArmor, Address > Randomization Execshield, PIE or others? > I hope that you can provide me with some answers on my > questions so i can move on with the research.
You could try using Google. http://www.google.de/search?q=opensuse+pax+execshield&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 First hit is: http://en.opensuse.org/Security_Features which answers lots of your questions. If this leaves open questions feel free to ask further :) Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
