From: Jeff D. <jd...@ka...> - 2002-01-26 02:56:03
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The new things in this release are a batch of .cvsignore files, an RPM spec file which makes an RPM out of these utilities, and jailtest, which is a little utility which tries to modify UML kernel memory. The idea with jailtest is that it will eventually poke at all of the holes closed by UML that could allow nasty people to break out to make sure that they remain closed. It could be good to run it at boot time on any UML which is intended to be secure. Right now, it is fairly rudimentary. It only tests a few things - this will need to be expanded greatly. In other news, Michael Richardson sent in a patch which allows the installation directories to be overridden from the command line. Some unsafe string manipulations in uml_mconsole and uml_switch were fixed. There were also some minor fixes in uml_moo. Jeff |