SELinux News

SE Android Released

jamesm — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:14:24 +0000

The NSA have announced the initial public release of the Security Enhanced Android (SE Android) project.

Security Enhanced (SE) Android is a project to identify and address critical gaps in the security of Android. Initially, the SE Android project is enabling the use of SELinux in Android in order to limit the damage that can be done by flawed or malicious apps and in order to enforce separation guarantees between apps. However, the scope of the SE Android project is not limited to SELinux.

SE Android is currently available as source code. Instructions on building and installing the project may be found at the project web page.

SELinux Usersapce 20110727 Released

jamesm — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:56:44 +0000

Steve Lawrence has announced the latest release of SELinux Userspace. This release appears to be mostly bugfixes.

Reference Policy 2.20110726 Released

jamesm — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:39:07 +0000

Tresys have announced the latest release of SELinux Reference Policy. This is primarily a maintenance release, with support for several OS packages, including mediawiki, bugzilla and passenger.

Wind River Linux Secure EAL4+ certified OS launched

jamesm — Wed, 04 May 2011 01:03:38 +0000

Wind River has announced the launch of an EAL4+ certified embedded Linux OS, Wind River Linux Secure. The certification platform is ARM, “including hardware from Texas Instruments, Intel and Power architectures”. SELinux is utilized for mandatory access control. This is the first commercial embedded Linux OS to receive this level of certification.

SELinux Userspace 2010-12-21 Released

jamesm — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:47:04 +0000

Chad Sellers has announced the latest release of the SELinux userspace suite. This version includes support for on-the-fly sandboxing of applications (including X apps), support for building with GCC 4.6, ‘newrole’ support for libcap-ng, and several robustness enhancements.

Reference Policy 2.20101213 Released

jamesm — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:00:11 +0000

Chris PeBenito has announced the release of the latest version of Reference Policy. This is primarily a maintenance release, but includes new support for several packages, including cgroup, livecd and hadoop.

SELinux Userspace 20100525 Released

jamesm — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:33:11 +0000

Tresys have announced version 20100525 of the SELinux userspace suite. Changes in this version include the ability to enable or disable semodule support, generation of ‘dontaudit’ rules via audtit2allow, improved documentation and improved support across different distributions. Source packages may be downloaded here, with the entire repository also available via git.

Reference Policy 2.20100524 Released

jamesm — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:25:17 +0000

Tresys have announced the release of version 2.20100524 of Reference Policy. Included in this release is a merge of a significant portion of the Fedora policy package, support for non-graphical X clients, updated Gentoo support, and improved documentation. This release is available at the download page.

SELinux Notebook Edition 2 Released

jamesm — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:38:25 +0000

Richard Haines has released the 2nd edition of The SELinux Notebook, an extensive work of documentation aimed at explaining SELinux to newcomers. It is also intended to be a reference document for the policy language and configuration. The Notebook has now been split into two volumes: The Foundations and Sample Policy Source, and updated to the latest implementation of SELinux in the Fedora 12 distribution. New topics in this edition include virtualization (sVirt), SE-PostgreSQL, XSELinux and Apache/SELinux Plus. The notebook may be downloaded here.

SETools 3.3.7 Released

jamesm — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:26:59 +0000

Tresys have announced the release of version 3.3.7 of the SETools policy analysis suite. Changes in this release include general usability improvements, bugfixes, and improved support for policy constraints.