Fedora (again) forces me to disable SELinux

[Gianluca Sforna]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:33:06 +0200, Mark scripst:
>
> > doesn't seem to add that much advantage. But i might be wrong..??
>
>  Yes, you are ;-). Even totally screwed up Apache server totally in hands
>  of script-kiddie via totally screwed up PHP release (not that it would
>  ever happen, just a theoretical example) cannot do more than it is
>  allowed to do by SELinux -- and that's not that much.

I think I remember a recent case for SELinux lowering the impact of a
_real_ security issue in one package.
I wanted to blog about it but could not find it anymore :(