December 5, 2005
grsecurity
grsecurity is an innovative approach to security utilizing a multi-layered detection, prevention, and containment model. It is licensed under the GPL.
It offers among many other features:
An intelligent and robust Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system that can generate least privilege policies for your entire system with no configuration
Change root (chroot) hardening
/tmp race prevention
Extensive auditing
Prevention of entire classes of exploits related to address space bugs (from the PaX project)
Additional randomness in the TCP/IP stack
A restriction that allows a user to only view his/her processes
Every security alert or audit contains the IP address of the person that caused the event
Visit it: http://www.grsecurity.org/
Filed under: hacking, internet, linux, networking, open source, security
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