From: dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
To: "Markus Hästbacka" <midian@ihme.org>
Cc: Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Rootkit queston
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:29:15 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312050927080.25927@twinlark.arctic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1070313094.11356.6.camel@midux>
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Markus Hästbacka wrote:
> I've been paranoid after I heard that the debian project got
> "rootkitted", I ran chkrootkit, and it said that it's possible that I
> have a LKM rootkit installed, but the website told me that it's possible
> that the LKM test gives wrong information with recent kernels (Running
> 2.4.22 now).
chkrootkit's lkm test is fooled by kernel threads... and if your system is
under heavy fork/exit load it'll result in some false lkm positives as
well. it shouldn't be hard to fix the first problem (in chkrootkit), but
the second has no real solution.
-dean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-05 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-01 21:11 [OT] Rootkit queston Markus Hästbacka
2003-12-01 22:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-01 23:36 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-01 23:47 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-01 22:48 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-12-05 17:29 ` dean gaudet [this message]
2003-12-02 21:24 Albert Cahalan
2003-12-06 13:45 Samium Gromoff
2003-12-06 15:01 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-06 15:10 ` Doug McNaught
2003-12-06 15:07 ` Christian
2003-12-08 13:49 ` Richard B. Johnson
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