Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:29:15 -0800 (PST) | From | dean gaudet <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Rootkit queston |
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On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Markus Hästbacka wrote:
> I've been paranoid after I heard that the debian project got > "rootkitted", I ran chkrootkit, and it said that it's possible that I > have a LKM rootkit installed, but the website told me that it's possible > that the LKM test gives wrong information with recent kernels (Running > 2.4.22 now).
chkrootkit's lkm test is fooled by kernel threads... and if your system is under heavy fork/exit load it'll result in some false lkm positives as well. it shouldn't be hard to fix the first problem (in chkrootkit), but the second has no real solution.
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