Re: Drawing lessons from fatal SELinux bug #1054350

[David Beveridge]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at&gt;wrote:

>  Eric Sandeen wrote:
>  > If the solution to every serious bug that slips through the cracks of a
>  > release is to disable the package, over time we may not have much left in
>  > Fedora.
>
>  But SELinux is the one package (OK, one of the few, along with, e.g.,
>  firewall stuff) whose removal would actually INCREASE Fedora's
>  functionality!
>  
Increase for who? Unauthorised attackers?

SELinux is the primary reason for me and my company choosing
Fedora/Redhat over Ubuntu/Debian or other distributions in the first place.