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Ubuntu - poorer security than FedoraUbuntu - poorer security than FedoraPosted Jul 19, 2008 20:19 UTC (Sat) by ceplm (guest, #41334)In reply to: Ubuntu - poorer security than Fedora by i3839 Parent article: Ubuntu, security response, and community contributions
All this stuff is unless when not used. What are the default CFLAGS in Ubuntu? The Red Hat distros are known to use quite paranoid ones.
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Ubuntu compile-time hardening Posted Jul 21, 2008 8:33 UTC (Mon) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link]
Ubuntu - poorer security than Fedora Posted Jul 21, 2008 8:51 UTC (Mon) by i3839 (guest, #31386) [Link] That isn't true, most is done by the kernel, only stack protection is useless when not enabled, so buffer overflows are still a danger, but less if the kernel makes the stack non-executable and randomizes the address space. And as the poster below linked to, Ubuntu seems to enable those flags too.
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