[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Server hacked - next...?



On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:09:53PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:30, Mario Lopez wrote:
> > In any case if you have a lkm rootkit, your done, dosent matter if 
> > you upload static, dinamic or whatever, kernel root kits are hard to
> > find, not even lsmod, rmmod can help you because it is quite easy to 
> > make a kernel module unloadable or even hiden, some of you may be 
> > thinking that they are safe to those kind of attacks because they
> > have disabled kernel module support in theyr kernel, well they are 
> > wrong :), there is code, and nice white papers explaining how to 
> > insert kernel code through /proc/kmem, if I am not wrong Silvio 
> > Cesare developed this technique two or three years ago, although it 
> > hasent being exploited too much you must be aware of it's existance.
> 
> I dont have module support and I dont have /proc/kmem. Am I missing
> something ? Running 2.4.20.

/dev/kmem?  You can remove it, sure, but it can just be mknod'd again.

 - Keegan

Attachment: pgpn9ELXYZYHd.pgp
Description: PGP signature


Reply to: