From: eliezer <eliezer@qlusters.com>
To: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devik@cdi.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow /dev/{,k}mem to be disabled to prevent kernel from being modified easily
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:30:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F2E51EF.6040208@qlusters.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030803210821.GA17710@codepoet.org>
Erik Andersen wrote:
>bert hubert wrote:
>
>
>>Greetings,
>>
>>
>>It blocks attempts by rootkits, such as devik's SucKIT, to hide themselves.
>>
>>
>
>Until the rootkit, already running as root, loads stuff as a
>kernel module... Perhaps you should make this enforce that
>people have CONFIG_MODULES=n,
>
>
>
(on a diff thread you talked about doing this dynamically)
Maybe you should also disable module loading.
has anyone already done such a thing as disabling module loading after a
point in system startup?
Eliezer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-04 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-03 18:09 [PATCH] Allow /dev/{,k}mem to be disabled to prevent kernel from being modified easily bert hubert
2003-08-03 19:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-08-03 19:18 ` bert hubert
2003-08-03 20:26 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-08-03 21:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-03 19:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-03 20:45 ` bert hubert
2003-08-03 20:52 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-08-03 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-03 21:33 ` David Lang
2003-08-03 21:47 ` bert hubert
2003-08-04 13:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-03 20:14 ` Matan Ziv-Av
2003-08-03 21:02 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-03 21:08 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-04 12:30 ` eliezer [this message]
2003-08-04 9:37 ` devik
2003-08-04 13:46 ` bert hubert
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