[elrepo] Announcement: EL7 Updated kmod-tpe release

Phil Perry phil at elrepo.org
Fri Apr 28 14:25:41 EDT 2017


Announcing the release of an updated kmod-tpe package for EL7 into the 
elrepo repository:

tpe-kmod-2.0.2-2.20170425git.el7.elrepo.src.rpm
kmod-tpe-2.0.2-2.20170425git.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

kmod-tpe is a kernel module that implements Trusted Path Execution 
security features in the RHEL7 kernel. From the projects README[1]:

"Trusted Path Execution 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 attack the system.

Since this module doesn't use any kind of ACLs, it works out of the box 
with no configuration. It isn't complicated to test or deploy to current 
production systems. Just install it and you're done!"

More information may be found at the links below.

Thank you,

The ELRepo Team.

[1] https://github.com/cormander/tpe-lkm/blob/master/README
[2] http://cormander.com/2017/04/tpe-lkm-version-2-released/
[3] 
http://cormander.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Distribution-Kernel-Security-Hardening.pdf



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