Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export.

Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-05-09T18:54:36Z

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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:08:08AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 10:42:08AM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> >
> > For example, a rogue process is calling settimeofday() on your router
> > once a month(!). How are you going to find it? There's no LSM hook for
> > settimeofday()
>
> Yes there is. Check the capable hook for CAP_SYS_TIME. LSM modules can
> get that info quite easily.

Indeed, I missed the fact that LSM modules have a capable
hook. Nonetheless, my original point stands: LSM and hooking kernel
objects are great for security and auditing, hijacking system calls
can be quite useful for debugging, both kernel and userspace.

Thanks,
Muli.
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org

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