Re: Disabling module loading with a module?

Herve MORILLON (hmorillon@hotmail.com)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:40:18 GMT

fvw wrote:
>
>On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > So you want to permanently disable module loading then, as
> > any way *you* have to load modules could be abused by crackers?
>No, because we're (or at least I'm) assuming reboot is impossible or
>attracts
>attention. So only loading modules after bootup would be a problem.
>
>[...]
>
>If we lived in a perfect world: Yes... But then there's things like pnp :-(
>
> > Did the crack module hide itself from "lsmod" too?
>The article wasn't that indepth, but I assume it changed /proc/modules.

There is an interesting article about this at
http://www.geog.ubc.ca/snag/bugtraq/msg00788.html called "Malicious
Linux Modules".

Regards,

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Hervé MORILLON - hmorillon@hotmail.com




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