On Feb 11, 2008 5:16 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just to clarify. I'm interested how safe is fedora in general with this > king of exploits... and does my argument for not having selinux on > desktop fedora cd versions is justified. An airbag in your car doesn't protect you from being side-swiped either. Does that mean that we should not have airbags in our car, too? Of course not. It's all about risk management. As Alan noted later in this thread, SELinux *can* prevent a series of steps whereby a server vulnerability leads to a shell and the ability to exploit this local vulnerability. Do airbags offer some level of protection? Yes. Will they for sure prevent you from being seriously injured/killed in a car accident? No. Does SELinux offer a good level of protection? Yes. Will it prevent every possible vulnerability from being exploited? No. In both instances, you'd be quite foolish to think otherwise. SELinux is part of a defense-in-depth strategy, that ranges from firewalls at the perimeter, IDS systems, host-based firewalls, and finally SELinux. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
