Hardening Ubuntu Server
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Ivan Krstić
We should look into adding selective system hardening features to Ubuntu Server, and possibly propagate them to the desktop after sufficient testing. The broken-by-default Edgy release provides a good place to throw in security code that can potentially break things, and see exactly what breaks.
Specifically, we should look at incorporating some of the featureset from grsecurity/PaX, such as ASLR, hardened jails, and some of the TCP/IP and socket security features that grsec provides. In addition, PIE and some memory protections should be considered.
Most of these security mechanisms are kernel-based, so we need buyin from our kernel folks.
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