Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. | Date | Thu, 8 May 2003 13:28:05 -0500 |
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On Thursday 08 May 2003 10:22, Alan Cox wrote: [snip] > > Fix the vulnerability. Then there won't be a virus. > > But you don't know if its fixed and if there are any more holes without > being able to detect attackers be they electronic or human.
Detecting attackers is a different situation. An attack that is already fixed is not a serious problem other than bandwidth. Virus scanners can't do that anyway - they can only detect what has already been detected... and which should have been fixed by the time the signature could have been put out, anyway. Detection should be part of an intrusion facility (isn't LIDS supposed to do that?)
Second, I want to setup SELinux to sandbox various facilities anyway (delayed due to job change). That should isolate any unknown attack to just one service, and protect the overall system. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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