ProactiveSecurityRoadmap

Revision 3 as of 2005-04-11 15:56:58

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Goal

Proactively improve security for Breezy

Requirements

  • Run cron as non-root?
  • Run dhclient3 as non-root?
  • Run dhcpd3 as non-root?
  • Change unix_chkpwd from suid root to sgid shadow (see [http://bugs.debian.org/155583 #155583])

  • Compile-time stack protection?
  • Eliminate inetd from base
  • Non-executable stack for i386?

Agenda

Pre-Work

  • Research privilege requirements of cron, dhclient3, dhcpd3
  • Search for implicit dependencies on inetd via netbase
  • Determine requirements for compile-time stack protection in gcc (4.x?)