Research: effects of diversity on threads from malware

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Dec 7 11:39:49 UTC 2007


Knijff, S.A.W. van der wrote:
> I'm performing an research about the effects of diversity
> on malware. In this research there will be looked at the
> effects of diversity within an operating system on malware,
> in this case different GNU/Linux distro's.
> Cause of the limited time schedule there will only be
> tested with three distro's, after this there will be picked
> one distro which is tested on different architectures.
> There is chosen to work with Fedora Core 6, OpenSuse 10.2
> and Ubuntu 6.10.
> Before starting the real-life tests there is a need to make
> some assumptions on what will happen when the malware is
> run on a system. Here for there will be looked at the
> compiler flags that are used during compilation of the
> distribution, I'm namely interested in the compiler flags
> which enhance the security within the distro.
> Also are there any kind of security measurements besides
> the compiler flags, for example SELinux, AppArmor, Address
> Randomization Execshield, PIE or others?
> I hope that you can provide me with some answers on my
> questions so i can move on with the research.

Refer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/Features

Rahul






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