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From: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] SELinux news
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:11:34
Message-Id: 1140487722.3038.4.camel@gorn.pebenito.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] SELinux news by Andy Dustman
1 On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 17:16 -0500, Andy Dustman wrote:
2 > On 1/3/06, Chris PeBenito <pebenito@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 17:20 -0500, Dale Pontius wrote:
4 > > > Chris PeBenito wrote:
5 > > >
6 > > > >Here is some news on the SELinux front, current events and stuff that is
7 > > > >on the horizon.
8 > > > >
9 > > > >XFS users should not use >=2.6.14 as a SELinux update caused breakage
10 > > > >[1], stay tuned for updates on this.
11 > > > >
12 > > > >
13 > > > I take it that since there has been no new news here, the just-released
14 > > > hardened-sources-2.4.14-r2 doesn't fix this?
15 > >
16 > > Correct. However, I did find out today that there is a fix, but it
17 > > won't be integrated upstream until 2.6.16, as it was too late for
18 > > 2.6.15. I'm going to see if I can create a patch for the interim.
19 >
20 > Did this patch ever get created? And since it seems we are not far
21 > from having 2.6.16 released, about how long thereafter should we
22 > expect to see a new hardened-sources?
23
24 No. It was dependent on a larger XFS update, so I felt it was better to
25 wait for 2.6.16.
26
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