grsecurity 1.8.3 (Stable)

From: aleph1at_private
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 12:24:34 PDT

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    grsecurity 1.8.3 (Stable)
      by spender (http://freshmeat.net/users/spender/)
      Monday, October 15th 2001 14:28
    
    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 PaX, random IP ids, random mmaping, fork bomb
    protection, oblivion, and logging the info string. It has chroot patches,
    updated docs, exec logging for gid, and set*id logging for root only.
    
    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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