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The blog of a Network Analyst who plays around with many things open source when he is not feeding his MMORPG addiction.
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Updated Security Analysis of Red Hat Enterprise 5
Posted on May 29th, 2008 No commentsMark Cox from Red Hat has published an analysis of the security updates release for RHEL 5.0 through 5.2:
The blog posts cover the effects of various exploit mitigation technologies. Sadly it seems the same software keeps having security holes over and over again. It would be a good idea not to use a web browser from an important server (No duh!). It also seems like Samba and Kerberos related daemons have some major issues and should be locked down with a MAC system like SELinux and removed from any system where they are not specifically needed.