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Gordon Darling
NSA Security-enhanced Linux 2004062816
Linux kernel security enhancements and supporting utilities.
About:
NSA Security-enhanced Linux is a set of patches to the Linux kernel and
some utilities to incorporate a strong, flexible mandatory access control
architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel. It provides a
mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on
confidentiality and integrity requirements, which allows threats of
tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed
and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or
flawed applications. It includes a set of sample security policy
configuration files designed to meet common, general-purpose security
goals.
Changes:
The current prototype and the experimental NFS code are now based on Linux
kernel 2.6.7. Fine-grained netlink classes and permissions have been
added. Many enhancements and bugfixes for policy as well as userland tools
including slat and setools have been incorporated.
Release focus: Minor feature enhancements
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/selinux/
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/selinux/7258/url_tgz/code
Regards
Gordon
Linux kernel security enhancements and supporting utilities.
About:
NSA Security-enhanced Linux is a set of patches to the Linux kernel and
some utilities to incorporate a strong, flexible mandatory access control
architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel. It provides a
mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on
confidentiality and integrity requirements, which allows threats of
tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed
and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or
flawed applications. It includes a set of sample security policy
configuration files designed to meet common, general-purpose security
goals.
Changes:
The current prototype and the experimental NFS code are now based on Linux
kernel 2.6.7. Fine-grained netlink classes and permissions have been
added. Many enhancements and bugfixes for policy as well as userland tools
including slat and setools have been incorporated.
Release focus: Minor feature enhancements
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/selinux/
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/selinux/7258/url_tgz/code
Regards
Gordon