Hi Ish
Thanks yes I was talking about kernel level rootkit being installed by an
attacker. What I understand is that if there is a security issue in one of
the modules you used to compile the kernel the attacker can gain access and
do mischief. Can such an attacker force this if the machine does not have
that module with the security issue installed?
thanks
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Ish Sookun <ish_at_hacklog.in> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> Since this thread drifts away from being "Internet in Mauritius" and might
> involve more discussions about Linux and FOSS, I suggest we limit the
> traffic to the LUGM[1] mailing list.
>
> [1] http://discuss.lugm.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_discuss.lugm.org
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ish Sookun
>
> - Geek by birth, Linux by choice.
> - I blog at HACKLOG.in.
>
> https://twitter.com/IshSookun ^^ Do you tweet?
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Beach Samurai <beach.samurai_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Are linux users prone to such attacks?
>> I moved from windows to ubuntu because i thought linux was impervious to
>> such attacks unless something got installed on the kernel....
>> On Apr 1, 2015 7:38 AM, "Ish Sookun" <ish_at_hacklog.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for the good work[1] Logan :-)
>>>
>>> As Logan specified xz is a widely used compression utility which might
>>> be exploited. Capsicum chips in to help containing the execution of code
>>> during compression/decompression in a "controlled" environment; thus not
>>> affecting the rest of the OS.
>>>
>>> [1] http://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commit;h=
>>> 1238381143a9a7ce84839c2582ccd56ff750a440
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ish Sookun
>>>
>>> - Geek by birth, Linux by choice.
>>> - I blog at HACKLOG.in.
>>>
>>> https://twitter.com/IshSookun ^^ Do you tweet?
>>>
>>>
>
Received on Wed Apr 01 2015 - 05:34:33 PST