selinux eradicator?

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri Jun 29 03:38:13 UTC 2007


Mike McCarty wrote:

> 
> A machine running current SELinux implementation is provably
> less secure in some senses than one which is not.
> 

 From a very recent security update for httpd.

Update Information:

The Apache HTTP Server did not verify that a process was an
Apache child process before sending it signals. A local
attacker with the ability to run scripts on the Apache HTTP
Server could manipulate the scoreboard and cause arbitrary
processes to be terminated which could lead to a denial of
service (CVE-2007-3304). This issue is not exploitable on
Fedora if using the default SELinux targeted policy.


Just a passing example.

Jim




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