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I think the question still stands, however, as to why the "main-line" hardened-sources are not being updated. |
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> From: casta@×××××.info |
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> To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Regarding hardened-sources |
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> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:54:29 +0100 |
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> CC: mansourmoufid@×××××.com |
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> Le Mercredi 24 Mars 2010 20:47:08, Mansour Moufid a écrit : |
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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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> > |
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> > [1] <http://grsecurity.net/news.php#stablechosen> |
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> Try hardened-development overlay (available via layman) |
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> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/hardened-dev.git;a=summary |
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> It provides a recent kernel and some toolchain patches |
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> -- |
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> Guillaume Castagnino |
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> casta@×××××.info / guillaume@××××××××××.org |
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