Security testing

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Aug 3 19:29:00 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 09:52 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just wanted to let everyone know that I've made a number of tests available for 
> assessing security of the distribution. It is by no means a comprehensive auditing 
> tool, but the scripts definitely find problems.
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/security/
> 
> On this list, the rpm-chksec program is the one that I am most interested in people 
> using right now. For Fedora 16, we have updated the policy to recommend all packages 
> be compiled with partial RELRO and important programs have full RELRO enabled. This 
> script can check individual rpms or the whole distribution at once for compliance.
> 
> I have text explaining what each test does. If anyone finds problems with a script, 
> please let me know. I will be adding more scripts as I find problems that need 
> widespread attention.
> 
> Hope this helps find and fix problems...

Looks like interesting stuff. Would any of these be appropriate to be
integrated into AutoQA so they could be run regularly?
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Adam Williamson
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