grsecurity 2.0.1 has been released for Linux 2.4.27 and 2.6.7. gradm has been updated to 2.0.1 for this release. This release includes PaX updates, proper locking that resolves NULL pointer oopses that some were experiencing, role de-authentication no longer requires a password, role name and subject name are displayed with every log if the RBAC system is enabled, the random TCP source ports feature won't fail before all ports are used, IP-based role support has been added to special roles, capability inheritance is fixed, the regular expression matching code for RBAC objects has been enhanced to support expected results of filename matching better and also handles [a-Z] style matching, stack usage has been reduced, kernel memory usage has been reduced, domain support has been added which allows you to group separate user roles together in the RBAC system, fixed XFS sleep-on-locking errors in 2.6, and automatic exploit bruteforcing deterrence, which delays an attack in services like apache where a parent forks off several children all sharing the same randomized address space layout and the attacker attempts to bruteforce the children by exhausting every possible randomized address. This release also fixes an important security issue discovered by stealth which allowed an attacker to kill protected processes in the RBAC system through a system call added recently to Linux. The chroot restrictions were unaffected by the addition of the system call. Some naming conventions were also changed, so /etc/grsec/acl has become /etc/grsec/policy. gradm will automatically move the file for you. gradm also supports directory including again, and several bugs have been fixed. If you're going to use 2.6.7, please also apply fixes for the numerous security bugs present in that kernel. Due to significant changes in the "stable" 2.6 tree that break much of PaX, a 2.6.8 patch may not be coming soon. Grsecurity has recently enlisted the help of former developer Michael Dalton who will be focusing on userland changes. These changes will be made initially for the Debian distribution and can be obtained by adding the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://grsecurity.net/debian/ unstable main deb-src http://grsecurity.net/debian/ unstable main As of this writing, glibc 2.3.2 packages for i386 and sparc(64) are available that include Stefan Esser's unlink sanity check and remove LD_DEBUG for suid apps to prevent leaking of randomization information. We will be moving to a new server shortly that will have more space for these packages. Thanks to my sponsors and everyone who has donated for making this possible. Enjoy -Brad