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Re: rootkit not found by rkhunter



On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 12:16:14PM -0400, Michael S Gilbert wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:44:52 -0400 Thomas Krichel wrote:
> >   It looks like the affected machines run older kernels, so 
> >   I will follow your advice and upgrade. 
> 
> i forgot to mention that 'uname -r' won't actually tell you whether you
> are running the most up-to-date debian kernel.  to do that, look at the
> output of 'dpkg -l | grep linux-image-$(uname -r)'.

cat /proc/version is nice because it is the running kernel, and
includes the package version.

>  you should have
> 2.6.30-8 or higher for sid and 2.6.26-19 or higher for lenny (not sure
> where your 2.6.22 version came from, but i would recommend installing
> an official kernel package instead of that one; otherwise you have no
> security support at all).
> 
> mike
> 
> 

-- 
dann frazier


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