Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: LKM rootkits in 2.6.x | Date | Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:31:49 +0100 |
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Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> writes:
> Am Do, den 11.03.2004 schrieb Dave Jones um 19:48: > >> 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. > > Ugh... this sounds ugly. This should be forbidden. I mean, what are > things like EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for if drivers are allowed to patch > whatever they want?
Who is to stop them? When running in kernel mode you are god.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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