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Linux-Announce Digest #506
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Thu Aug 14 09:13:06 2003
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Linux-Announce Digest #506, Volume #4 Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:13:03 EDT
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SECURITY: NSA Security-enhanced Linux updated (Howard Holm)
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From: Howard Holm <hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Subject: SECURITY: NSA Security-enhanced Linux updated
Date: 14 Aug 2003 12:10:01 GMT
The SELinux web site <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/> including the mail
list archive has been updated. The SELinux module has been merged into
the mainline kernel as of 2.6.0-test3. This release includes new kernel
patches based on the 2.6.0-test3 kernel and a backport of the 2.6
SELinux module to the 2.4.21 kernel. The new API is consistent between
2.4 and 2.6. The old 2.4 API and user-space utilities are no longer
actively maintained. There have been a number of bug fixes and cleanups
to the library and utilities as well as new contributions to the example
policy.
Security-enhanced Linux incorporates a strong, flexible mandatory
access control architecture into the major subsystems of the Linux
kernel. The system provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of
information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements. This
allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security
mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that
can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. The SELinux web
site <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/> contains background information,
documentation, source code, and archives for the selinux mailing-list.
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Howard Holm <hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Office of Defensive Computing Research
National Security Agency
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