grsecurity 1.8 (Stable) by spender (http://freshmeat.net/users/spender/) Tuesday, September 25th 2001 10:02 Categories: Security, System :: Logging, System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux About: grsecurity is a set of security patches for Linux 2.4 that contain all the features of Openwall and HAP-Linux, among many other patches for 2.2, and other OSes. It features the Openwall non-executable stack, PaX, the Oblivion ACL system, /proc restrictions, chroot restrictions, linking and FIFO restrictions, exec and set*id logging, secure file descriptors, trusted path execution, randomized IP IDs, randomized PIDs, randomized TCP source ports, altered ping ids, randomized TTL, better IP stack randomness, socket restrictions, fork-bomb protection, sysctl support on nearly all options, secure keymap loading, stealth networking enhancements, signal logging, failed fork logging, time change logging, and others. Changes: Code to prevent fork bombing was implemented. The ACL code was updated. PaX was updated. Several bugs were fixed. This release is for use with versions 2.4.10 and 2.4.9 of the Linux kernel. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/grsecurity/ -- Elias Levy SecurityFocus http://www.securityfocus.com/ Si vis pacem, para bellum
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