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Re: Exploit or trojan

From: Konrad Rieck (krroqe.org)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 13:32:02 CST


On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 01:33, Felipe Franciosi wrote:
> I guess that in Solaris systems you can just reach for a new copy
> of 'ps' and use the 'clean' one to check everything out.
> [...]
> Doing so on Linux systems doesn't help much, since recently there
> have been several kernel backdoors
> [...]

Oops.

Such kind of kernel backdoors (e.g. loadable kernel modules) are also
present for Solaris, *BSD and Windows systems. If you are unsure whether
someone has compromised your system, don't trust the system's kernel!

Regards,
Konrad
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