Security

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Features

openSUSE's Security Features help to prevent bugs from being exploitable.

Updates

Security updates for openSUSE are provided for two years starting from the release date. See SUSE Linux Lifetime for details.

Security announcements are sent to the opensuse-security-announce mailinglist. An archive is also available. There is also a RSS feed that you can subscribe to.

Updates are freely available on our Update Mirrors. A helper program of YaST Online Update automatically notifies the user about new updates and allows to install then with a few mouse clicks.

Team

Security of the openSUSE distributions is being worked on by the Security Team within SUSE.

Links

openSUSE security related links on the Novell website:

• openSUSE Updates, Patches, Bugfixes
• SUSE Linux Security Advisories
• SUSE security problems by CVE index

Wiki Articles

openSUSE security related articles:

• Securing SUSE Linux

Other References

• Center for Internet Security: SUSE Linux Benchmark

External Link

• Securing SUSE Linux
• Submitting Bug Reports
• Legal