2006 Operating System Vulnerability Summary

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Hi

Fedora does very well compared to other systems in this.

http://www.omninerd.com/2007/03/26/articles/74

"After the first reboot, the network card came on-line for a final stage 
of installation configurations. Fedora's installer prompted for security 
configurations on the firewall whereupon ports were opened for FTP, 
Mail, NFS, SSH, Samba, HTTPS, telnet and HTTP. No changes were made to 
the default SELinux policies.72 Nmap could not identify the operating 
system, guessing incorrectly Sun Solaris 10. Unlike other Nmap scans 
which took only seconds, this scan lasted for 26 minutes and resulted in 
numerous filtered ports which is behavior indicative of a default 
firewall. A Nessus scan against Fedora 6 during the configuration 
process revealed no direct vulnerabilities to the host itself.73"

Rahul