Re: LKM rootkits in 2.6.x

[Christophe Saout]

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?


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