[Devil-linux-develop] [fmII] grsecurity 1.9.7 released (Stable branch)

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The changes in this release are as follows:
A segmentation-based implementation of PaX was included, which
provides all the benefits of the page-based implementation and
improved performance. Process-based resource restrictions and IP ACLs
were added to the ACL system, which is now more stable and faster and
contains a feature to stop brute-force exploits and log the IP of the
attacker. Kernel stack randomization was added, and Gradm,
grsecurity's ACL administration utility, was updated to v1.5.

Project description:
grsecurity is a complete security system for Linux 2.4 that implements
a detection/prevention/containment strategy. It prevents most forms
of address space modification, confines programs with least privilege
via its process-based ACL system, hardens syscalls, and provides many
of the OpenBSD randomness features. It has auditing capabilities and
a netfilter module designed to thwart portscans and OS
fingerprinting. 

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