Enterprise Linux 5.1 to 5.2 risk report

Courtesy LWN.net  Mon, 06/02/2008 - 10:33

Red Hat's Mark Cox has produced a report on the vulnerabilities fixed between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and 5.2.

These periodic reports do a bit of analysis of the numbers of flaws as well as their impact. In addition, Cox looks at the threat mitigation provided by security technologies like SELinux and ExecShield that ship with RHEL.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 shipped with a number of security technologies designed to make it harder to exploit vulnerabilities and...

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