Fedora 19 Update: hardening-check-2.3-2.fc19

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Wed Jun 12 03:36:07 UTC 2013


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-10646
2013-06-12 03:19:46.167283
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Name        : hardening-check
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 2.3
Release     : 2.fc19
URL         : http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/hardening-wrapper
Summary     : Tool to check ELF for being built hardened
Description :
hardening-check is a tool to check whether an already compiled ELF file
was built using hardening flags.

It checks, using readelf, for these hardening characteristics:

  * Position Independent Executable
  * Stack protected
  * Fortify source functions
  * Read-only relocations
  * Immediate binding

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Update Information:

hardening-check is a tool to check whether an already compiled ELF file was built using hardening flags. It checks, using readelf, for these hardening characteristics: * Position Independent Executable * Stack protected * Fortify source functions * Read-only relocations * Immediate binding
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #971836 - Review Request: hardening-check - Tool to check ELF for being built hardened
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971836
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update hardening-check' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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