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I have unmasked hardened-sources-2.4.27-r2, |
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hardened-dev-sources-2.6.7-r8, and selinux-base-policy-20040702 for the |
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SELinux headers update. Since my last email was a long time ago, I |
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copied the relevant portion at the bottom. The 20040702 policy is the |
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same as 20040629, except with the headers update, so if you are up to |
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date on policy, it should be a trivial policy update. The headers are |
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in the flask directory of the policy. |
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On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 12:07, Chris PeBenito wrote: |
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> * The 2.6.8 kernel will have some new SELinux classes for security |
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> enhanced X. The problem is that these will collide with our PaX |
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> support. This means that the kernel and the policy will have to be |
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> updated at the same time, as the kernel will not load a policy whose |
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> headers don't match its own. When 2.6.8 comes out, I will put out a |
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> policy with the new headers, and also bump all kernels that have the |
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> PaX SELinux hooks. Fortunately the PaX SELinux headers have been |
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> accepted upstream, so this won't happen again. 2.6.8 will also bring |
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> policy version 18, since fine-grained netlink socket support has been |
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> added. |
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If you don't reboot (with the updated kernel if relevant), you will get |
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this error: |
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security: the value of class pax changed |
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security: the definition of an existing class changed |
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The policy load will fail. |
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-- |
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Chris PeBenito |
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<pebenito@g.o> |
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Developer, |
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Hardened Gentoo Linux |
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Embedded Gentoo Linux |
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Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE6AF9243 |
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Key fingerprint = B0E6 877A 883F A57A 8E6A CB00 BC8E E42D E6AF 9243 |
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