Re: LKM rootkits in 2.6.x

[Dave Jones]

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

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