[elrepo] Announcement: New EL5 kmod-tpe Release [Version 1.0]

[Akemi Yagi]

Announcing the release of a new package, kmod-tpe, into the EL5 elrepo
repository:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-tpe

This package has been provided as a result of the following RFE:

http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=269

Trusted Path Execution (TPE) is a security feature that denies users
from executing programs that are not owned by root, or are writable.
This closes the door on a whole category of exploits where a malicious
user tries to execute his or her own code to hack the system. Since
this kernel module does not use any kind of ACLs, it works out of the
box with no configuration.

It is built to depend upon the specific ABI provided by a range of
releases of the same variant of the Linux kernel and not on any one
specific build.

More details on TPE can be found here:

https://github.com/cormander/tpe-lkm

The following files are currently syncing to the mirrors:

x86:
kmod-tpe-1.0.3-4.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
kmod-tpe-PAE-1.0.3-4.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
kmod-tpe-xen-1.0.3-4.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kmod-tpe-1.0.3-4.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
kmod-tpe-xen-1.0.3-4.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

src:
tpe-kmod-1.0.3-4.el5.elrepo.src.rpm

Thank you,

The ELRepo Team.