From cef58f3fcbe154efd64f1349ff7f745415dcb3c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Marchese
- Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us.
+ Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our user's machines is of utmost importance to us.
The Security Project
is tasked with providing timely information about security vulnerabilities in Gentoo Linux, along with patches to secure those vulnerabilities.
- We work directly with vendors, end users and other OSS projects to ensure all security incidents are responded to quickly and professionally.
+ We work directly with vendors, end users, and other OSS projects to ensure all security incidents are responded to quickly and professionally.
- You can find a document describing the policy the security team follows to treat the vulnerabilities found in the
- Gentoo Linux distribution on the Vulnerability Treatment Policy page.
+ Documentation describing security team vulnerability treatment can be found in our Vulnerability Treatment Policy.
- To stay up-to-date with the security fixes you should subscribe to receive GLSAs and apply GLSA instructions whenever you have an affected package installed.
- Alternatively, syncing your portage tree and upgrading every package should also keep you up-to-date security-wise.
+ Community members who wish to stay up-to-date with the security fixes should subscribe to GLSAs and apply GLSA instructions whenever an affected package installed.
+ Alternatively, regularly syncing the Gentoo ebuild repository and upgrading every package should also keep the system up-to-date security-wise.
- You can use glsa-check tool (part of the gentoolkit package) to:
+ The glsa-check tool can be used to:
- Gentoo Linux Security Announcements are notifications that we send out to the community to inform them of security vulnerabilities related to Gentoo Linux or the packages contained in our portage repository.
+ Gentoo Linux Security Announcements are notifications that we send out to the community to inform them of security vulnerabilities related to Gentoo Linux or the packages contained in the Gentoo ebuild repository.
Security in Gentoo Linux
Installing a secure Gentoo system
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Keeping Gentoo secure
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Gentoo Linux Security Announcements (GLSAs)
Recent advisories
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- If you find errors or omissions in published GLSAs, you should also file a bug in Gentoo Bugzilla in the Gentoo Security product, but with GLSA Errors component. + If errors or omissions are found in published GLSAs, please file a bug in Gentoo Bugzilla in the Gentoo Security product, with the GLSA Errors component.
diff --git a/support/security/stay-informed.html b/support/security/stay-informed.html index f0f4ba2..622b81c 100644 --- a/support/security/stay-informed.html +++ b/support/security/stay-informed.html @@ -14,16 +14,14 @@ layout: page-nav3
Use glsa-check to check your system's security status.
- To see all advisories that affect your system, run:
Use the glsa-check tool to check the system's security status.
+ To see all advisories that affect the system, run:
% glsa-check -t affected
+glsa-check -t affected
-
- If you don't have the utility installed, run emerge -va app-portage/gentoolkit.
- For more information, review the documentation on our Wiki.
For more information, review the GLSA documentation on our wiki.
We offer RSS and Atom feeds that you can subscribe to using your news reader:
+We offer RSS and Atom feeds for subscription via a news reader of choice: