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Hello, |
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The latest stable release of grsecurity is for 2.6.32 kernels. |
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Gentoo's hardened-sources have been stuck at 2.6.28-r9 for a while |
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now. Is there any particular reason for this? |
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Stability is important, but it's also fact that many (most?) |
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vulnerabilities in Linux are fixed silently as non-security updates in |
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the latest kernels. The grsecurity/PaX team has been tracking and |
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backporting these sorts of stealth vulnerability fixes. Therefore, |
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would it not make more sense for Gentoo Hardened to follow their lead? |
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Especially considering they will be supporting 2.6.32 on a long term |
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basis[1]. |
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Thanks for your time. |
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[1] <http://grsecurity.net/news.php#stablechosen> |
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Mansour Moufid |