A New Virus

A New Virus

[Kutz, William R]

There are reports of a new virus that infects both Windows and Linux
platforms: 
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010327/wr/virus_winux_dc_1.html

As the popularity of Linux grows, this will become more of the norm, and it
would be interesting to know if a standard configuration of selinux is more
capable of withstanding & controlling the infection and subsequent
propagation of the virus. Real world examples like this can go a long way
toward demonstrating the value of the security features prominent in systems
like selinux.

Keep up the good work; I think this is a call that we clearly need more
contributions like that provided by the team at NSA.

Bill
 

Bill Kutz

M&DS Lockheed Martin
william.r.kutz@lmco.com
610-354-7149



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Re: A New Virus

[Joshua Brindle]

It seems to me that for this virus to be able to infect linux executables from within windows you must have a umsdos partition. What if you have an ext2 partition and are dual booting? I don't think this virus could affect you. It's really sad that this virus is claimed to be the only windows/linux virus, I wouldn't really call it much of a linux virus since the only way it circumvents filesystem permissions and access controls is to run from within windows. 


Joshua Brindle
UNIX Administrator
SNU

>>> "Kutz, William R" <william.r.kutz@lmco.com> 03/29/01 07:13AM >>>
There are reports of a new virus that infects both Windows and Linux
platforms: 
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010327/wr/virus_winux_dc_1.html 

As the popularity of Linux grows, this will become more of the norm, and it
would be interesting to know if a standard configuration of selinux is more
capable of withstanding & controlling the infection and subsequent
propagation of the virus. Real world examples like this can go a long way
toward demonstrating the value of the security features prominent in systems
like selinux.

Keep up the good work; I think this is a call that we clearly need more
contributions like that provided by the team at NSA.

Bill
 

Bill Kutz

M&DS Lockheed Martin
william.r.kutz@lmco.com 
610-354-7149



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Re: A New Virus

[Albert D. Cahalan]

> It seems to me that for this virus to be able to infect linux
> executables from within windows you must have a umsdos partition.
...
> I wouldn't really call it much of a linux virus since the only
> way it circumvents filesystem permissions and access controls
> is to run from within windows. 

Why does everybody keep forgetting the network?

You can get an NFS client and server for Windows. You can get
an SMB client and server for Linux. There, all home directories
infected. If root runs anything off NFS, well, Linux is toast.

Don't bother me with a discussion about why NFS is evil.


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