Fedora EPEL 6 Update: lynis-1.5.3-1.el6

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2014-1496 2014-05-24 17:08:08 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : lynis Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 1.5.3 Release : 1.el6 URL : http://cisofy.com/lynis/ Summary : Security and system auditing tool Description : Lynis is an auditing and hardening tool for Unix/Linux and you might even call it a compliance tool. It scans the system and installed software. Then it performs many individual security control checks. It determines the hardening state of the machine, detects security issues and provides suggestions to improve the security defense of the system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: * 1.5.3 (2014-05-19) New: - Support for zypper package manager - Gather installed packages with Zypper on SuSE systems [PKGS-728] - Check for vulnerable packages with Zypper package manager [PKGS-7330] Changes: - Check for aide.conf also in /etc [FINT-4315] - Adjusted screen output for unreliable NTP peers [TIME-3120] - Adjusted check kernel test for non-Linux systems [KRNL-5730] - Improved screen output on AIX systems with echo command * 1.5.2 (2014-05-05) New: - Support for runlevel in binaries test Changes: - Added suggestion for kernel availability check [KRNL-5788] - Added suggestion for services at startup and proper binary call [BOOT-5180] - Added suggestion to configure accounting on FreeBSD [ACCT-2754] - Added suggestion to configure Linux process accounting [ACCT-9622] - Several new controls listed on website - Adjusted hardening index if total score was zero - Added suggestion for auditd.conf file [ACCT-9632] - Removed suggestion for audit log file [ACCT-9634] - Removed warning from NTP falsetickers test, added data to report [TIME-3132] - Removed warning from NTP selected time source test [TIME-3124] * 1.5.1 (2014-04-22) Changes: - Extended reporting with running databases and frameworks - Adjusted Oracle status in test [DBS-1840] - Extended grsecurity test [RBAC-6272] - Redirect rpcinfo errors to /dev/null - Adjusted color scheme -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update lynis' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys --------------------------------------------------------------------------------