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Students uncover dozens of Unix software flaws (News.com)Students uncover dozens of Unix software flaws (News.com)Posted Dec 17, 2004 21:46 UTC (Fri) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)In reply to: Students uncover dozens of Unix software flaws (News.com) by sdalley Parent article: Students uncover dozens of Unix software flaws (News.com)
Some secure Linux distros audit software pretty carefully. The problem is you have to limit your focus quite a bit. Some admins audit the code for the daemons they run... For example, stay away from mp3 streamers.
Who's going to go looking for exploits in nasm? Not so many people run nasm. People that do run nasm don't need to do it as root.
In the end, you have to understand that there will always be security bugs. Use a firewall, use kernel hacks to stop buffer overflows, don't run software as root and make backups.
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Students uncover dozens of Unix software flaws (News.com) Posted Dec 18, 2004 16:39 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] Bah.
I have just installed my Linux Desktop. I want it to just work, and work well. I don't want to have to live in constant fear.
Living in fear Posted Jan 2, 2005 9:58 UTC (Sun) by raboofje (guest, #26972) [Link] Well, there *will* always be security problems, but on this point other OS'es are at least as `scary' as Linux...
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