[Openvas-distro] Hardening OpenVAS

[Tim Brown]

Hey all,

So as a security related project I think we should take a lead with respect to 
hardening our code.  I've just taken the latest openvas* source packages and 
rebuilt them using DEB_BUILD_HARDENING=1 (http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening).  
I will run it for a week or two on x86_64 to see if it shows any bugs up but 
if not, I would like to apply it to the official packaging.  Does anyone have 
any issues with such a plan?

Tim

PS Anyone compiling for other platforms is welcome to join in this exercise... 
and in fact we should consider moving the hardening into the mainline build 
tree in due course?
-- 
Tim Brown
<mailto:timb at openvas.org>
<http://www.openvas.org/>