Fedora 20 Update: hardening-check-2.4-1.fc20

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Fri Sep 27 00:37:39 UTC 2013


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-17164
2013-09-19 18:18:23
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Name        : hardening-check
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.4
Release     : 1.fc20
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:

new upstream release with some improvements, see %doc ChangeLog
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1008372 - hardening-check-2.4 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1008372
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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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