Fedora (again) forces me to disable SELinux

[Rahul Sundaram]

Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:33:06 +0200, Mark scripst:
>>
>>> doesn't seem to add that much advantage. But i might be wrong..??
>>  Yes, you are ;-). Even totally screwed up Apache server totally in hands
>>  of script-kiddie via totally screwed up PHP release (not that it would
>>  ever happen, just a theoretical example) cannot do more than it is
>>  allowed to do by SELinux -- and that's not that much.
> 
> I think I remember a recent case for SELinux lowering the impact of a
> _real_ security issue in one package.
> I wanted to blog about it but could not find it anymore :(

There are several. Refer to the mitigation news section in

http://tresys.com/selinux/

Rahul