Re:OpenBSD: a puffy in the aquarium
by tedunangst on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @04:39PM
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Most of OpenBSD's attack mitigation is at the kernel or libc level. It applies equally to the base system and third party software.
Yes, we hear this every time. But this is the same project that advocated systrace, which provided access control with respect to syscalls. I do not see much of a difference between systrace and a mandatory access control framework, except that the implementation of systrace was flawed, it didn't support file labels, and SELinux has a more sophisticated policy language.
The OpenBSD Project has a very narrow view of security, and do little to improve attack mitigation for software that is not in the base system (ports).