Kernel vulnerability

[Rahul]

Benjy Grogan wrote:
> On 7/15/06, Dawid Gajownik <gajownik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dnia 07/15/2006 07:03 AM, Użytkownik Dave Jones napisał:
>>
>> > There's another vulnerability that has been announced today, and
>> > another -stable got pushed out this evening.
>>
>> You mean CVE-2006-3626? In this mail →
>> http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-July/047921.html
>> they suggest mounting /proc as nosuid. Could this be done by default in
>> FC6+ or does this break some things.

>>
>> BTW SELinux can stop this attack →
>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2006-July/msg00071.html 
>>
>> :D
> 
> Wow.  That's great to know.  There should be a list of every security
> vulnerability that SELinux has stopped or limited.  Maybe reported at
> Fedoranews.org as they occur.  You rarely hear about when SELinux does
> what it was designed for.
> 

I have send a note to the fedora news editor. We do carry information on 
   where SELinux has prevented or substantially reduced the severity of 
the issue but these probably can be advertised better.

Examples can be found in

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/017mar06/features/riskreport/
http://people.redhat.com/mjc/metrics.html

Rahul