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From: selinux@freshmeat.net
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:35:08 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups: fm.announce
NSA Security-enhanced Linux 2004110116
by NSA Security-enhanced Linux Team (http://freshmeat.net/~nsalinux/)
Wed, Nov 3rd 2004 13:35
About:
NSA Security-enhanced Linux is a set of patches to the Linux kernel and
some utilities to incorporate a strong, flexible mandatory access control
architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel. It provides a
mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on
confidentiality and integrity requirements, which allows threats of
tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed
and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or
flawed applications. It includes a set of sample security policy
configuration files designed to meet common, general-purpose security
goals.
Changes:
This release is based on Linux 2.6.9, and includes significant scalability
enhancements to the core SELinux code. Numerous improvements to
libselinux, policycoreutils, and policy have also been merged. An updated
version of setools from Tresys has been merged. Updated userland patches
and SRPMS have been merged from the Fedora Core 3 development tree. This
release includes the first public release of a new tool by MITRE, polgen,
which attempts to generate policy for an application based on patterns in
its behavior.
Release focus: Minor feature enhancements
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/selinux/
Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/redir/selinux/7258/url_homepage/selinux
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/selinux/7258/url_tgz/code
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