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Red Hat ups security for Enterprise Linux 3
Wednesday, 08 September 2004, 16:10 GMT

Red Hat has strengthened the security of its Enterprise Linux distro.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 3 limits how much damage a hacker could do. The company said the release is ahead of schedule and not a reaction to any specific threat. The update includes Exec-shield and Position Independent Executable features which protect against attacks which exploit stack and buffer memory overflows. It also extends NX (No Execute) support from Intel 2 chips to include Intel x86, EM64T and AMD 64 chips.

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