Drawing lessons from fatal SELinux bug #1054350

David Beveridge dave at bevhost.com
Fri Jan 24 01:37:47 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>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.
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