From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>,
Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: LKM rootkits in 2.6.x
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:57:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040312005743.GL28660@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1079052692.5345.0.camel@mentor.gurulabs.com>
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:51:33PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 16:50, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:35:32PM +0100, Christophe Saout wrote:
> >
> > > > It _is_ forbidden. This isn't any kind of accident we are talking about,
> > > > this is out and out fraud.
> > >
> > > I'm talking about binary modules, not rootkits. Vendors aren't doing
> > > forbidden things, are they?
> > Yes.
> What Vendors and modules?
Most recent one I saw was some 'antivirus' filescanning module.
The name escapes me. It was mentioned on l-k at the time.
It wasn't the first by any means however. This trick has been used
since vendors stopped exporting sys_call_table.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-12 0:58 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
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 [this message]
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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