From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: pg smith <pete@linuxbox.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LKM rootkits in 2.6.x
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:48:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040311184835.GA21330@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403111124020.27770-100000@linuxbox.co.uk>
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:26:23AM -0800, pg smith wrote:
> Any thoughts on the future of LKM rootkits in the 2.6 kernel branch ? In
> the last few years I've become quite interested in them (from a defensive
> point of view), but with the 2.6 kernel no longer exporting the syscall
> table, intercepting system calls would appear to be a non-starter now.
Don't bet on it. They'll just start doing what binary-only driver vendors
have been doing for months.. If the table isn't exported, they find a symbol
that is exported, and grovel around in memory near there until they find
something that looks like it, and patch accordingly.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-11 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-11 19:26 LKM rootkits in 2.6.x pg smith
2004-03-11 18:48 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-03-11 19:16 ` Christophe Saout
2004-03-11 19:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-11 20:42 ` Horst von Brand
2004-03-11 20:49 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-11 19:31 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-11 19:49 ` Tomasz Torcz
2004-03-11 20:33 ` Horst von Brand
2004-03-11 20:35 ` Christophe Saout
2004-03-11 23:50 ` Dave Jones
2004-03-12 0:51 ` Dax Kelson
2004-03-12 0:57 ` Dave Jones
2004-03-14 0:44 ` Jirka Kosina
2004-03-11 19:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-11 19:57 ` Paul Rolland
2004-03-11 20:27 ` Horst von Brand
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