Red Hat Security Blog: May 2007 archives

  • Predictable security severities

    Red Hat has shipped products with randomization, stack protection, and other security mechanisms turned on by default since 2003. Vista recently shipped with similar protections and I read today an article about how the Microsoft Security Response Team were not treating Vista any differently when rating the severity of security issues. The Red Hat Security Response team use a similar guide for classification and I thought it would be worth clarifying how we handle this very situation. We...
    Posted 2007-05-18T00:00:00+00:00 - 0