grsecurity 1.8.2 (Stable) by spender (http://freshmeat.net/users/spender/) Thursday, October 11th 2001 13:54 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: This release fixes fork bomb protection (it kills the offending process). The code has been updated to 2.4.12, and a fix for the 2.4.12 parport bug is included. 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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