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Re: Bug in chkrootkit ?


From: Alex 'CAVE' Cernat <cave () cernat ro>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:54:50 +0300

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:30:03 +0200
Michael Weber <mweber () hitwin com> wrote:

"You have 4 process hidden for ps command" and the hint for a probably
installed "LKM Rootkit". So far, so good. "chkproc" with verbose
option enabled (-v) say:

ring a bell; check your chrootkit version; it must be the newest
in older one on redhat 9 at least, maybe another distributions, the
threads (implemented as nptl) we're classified as hidden processes
(patched in the newest version of chrootkit); named can be configured to
use threads, check this too ... maybe this is the real reason

Alex

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