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: James Morris (james_morris) wrote,
2007-12-19 21:05:00

James Morris
james_morris
2007-12-19 21:05:00

SELinux mitigates HPLIP vulnerability

I missed this one at the time, but a member of the Red Hat security response team just pointed me at this RHEL advisory from October, where a vulnerability in HPLIP was mitigated by standard targeted policy.

That is, SELinux provided zero-day protection against local users exploiting this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as root.

Previously:

All my talk slides are now on Slideshare

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Security subsystem changes in the 2.6.30 kernel

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SELinux mitigates HPLIP vulnerability

All my talk slides are now on Slideshare

SELinux for Humans

Security subsystem changes in the 2.6.30 kernel

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