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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2019-0103bf87d7
2019-04-21 23:17:16.388061
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Name : checksec
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 1.11.1
Release : 1.el7
URL :
https://github.com/slimm609/checksec.sh
Summary : Tool to check system for binary-hardening
Description :
Modern Linux distributions offer some mitigation techniques to make it harder
to exploit software vulnerabilities reliably. Mitigations such as RELRO,
NoExecute (NX), Stack Canaries, Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and
Position Independent Executables (PIE) have made reliably exploiting any
vulnerabilities that do exist far more challenging. The checksec script is
designed to test what *standard* Linux OS and PaX (
http://pax.grsecurity.net/)
security features are being used.
As of version 1.3 the script also lists the status of various Linux kernel
protection mechanisms.
checksec can check binary-files and running processes for hardening features.
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Update Information:
Update to 1.11.1: - Section of man-page was moved to man1 - Add patch to fix
shebang - Add patch to disable --update command - Remove patch applied in
upstream tarball - De-tabbify spec file - Remove obsolete Group tag - which is
Required - Cleanup spec file conditionals
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1611199 - Man page scan results for checksec
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1611199
[ 2 ] Bug #1693841 - checksec-1.11.1 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1693841
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update checksec' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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