Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: "Javier J. Martínez Cabezón" <tazok.id0@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] "How hard" is Linux kernel-side hardening?
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:47:08
Message-Id: 897813410909210746y12142337ldb1b6ee9fdf60067@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] "How hard" is Linux kernel-side hardening? by Pavel Labushev
1 > Remember that RSBAC does not work with PaX on a recent kernels. If you
2 > really want more security with Linux, PaX is the first and the most
3 > important thing you should consider. It aims to prevent exploits from
4 > working, while MAC/RBAC/RSBAC fights the consequences in userspace and
5 > does little to protect against the kernel exploits.
6
7 RSBAC with PaX works with new kernels, you can patch it yourself or
8 you can download one kernel that is already patched from
9 http://enhanced.rsbac.org/2.6/2.6.31/.
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11 > A server without PaX is barely a better choice.
12
13 The same as before, PaX runs with rsbac in new kernels

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Re: [gentoo-hardened] "How hard" is Linux kernel-side hardening? Pavel Labushev <p.labushev@×××××.com>