Fedora Core 4 plans announced

Posted Jan 20, 2005 0:12 UTC (Thu) by ahz (guest, #27372)
Parent article: Fedora Core 4 plans announced

What exactly FORTIFY_SOURCE? How does it compare to SSP (aka ProPolice) and Exec-Shield (already in Fedora Core 3)?

Linux distributions need strong stack protection enabled by default--starting first with network-enabled applications including daemons (e.g. Apache) and clients (e.g. Firefox).

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Fedora Core 4 plans announced

Posted Jan 20, 2005 21:03 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] (2 responses)

Protection on executing data is already part of Fedora Core. Has been for quite some time now.

Fedora Core 4 plans announced

Posted Jan 21, 2005 23:09 UTC (Fri) by ahz (guest, #27372) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, and Exec-Shield improved between FC releases, which implies ES had shortcomings.

I would like an expert's comparison on Exec-Sheild, SSP, and related technologies. Why does Fedora use Exec-Shield and OpenBSD use SSP?

If all security extensions cannot be integrated, it would be great to offer them otherwise. I would rebuild (recompile) my system, which is an Internet host, to get more security. Anyone willing to make a Hardened Fedora project that facilities this?

Fedora Core 4 plans announced

Posted Mar 1, 2005 8:41 UTC (Tue) by performanceman (guest, #28141) [Link]

It would be nice to see Fedora with great performance, right now is great but sometimes take time to do things, ie: yoper

http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?showtopic=1010
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erformance patches from Con Kolivas, i686 2.6.7 kernel, reiserfs
1.) All original sources, minimal patches.
2.) Compiled with i686 against latest gcc
3.) Stripping
4.) Prelinking
5.) Latest gcc and glibc and other sources
6.) Keep everything only dependent to what it really needs not what the ./configure happens to find.
7.) Hdparm on install