On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:50:10PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
>Robin Humble <[email protected]> wrote:
>> have there been many (any?) real world examples of selinux stopping
>> attacks?
>yes. red Hat has documented them. There was an article published in which Red
>Hat noted that a significant proportion of vulnerabilities in Red Hat
>Enterprise Linux were such that SELinux restrictions would provide real
>protection

I can find only 2 hypothetical successful defences from about 2008.
one samba bug and one obscure printer daemon.
weighed up against the 1 vulnerability selinux caused, I guess that
it's slightly ahead.

that list isn't a ringing endorsement though... is there a better list
somewhere?

cheers,
robin
_______________________________________________
luv-main mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main

Reply via email to