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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:36:29 -0200
From:      Luiz Eduardo Roncato Cordeiro <cordeiro@cert.br>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: chkrootkit V. 0.47
Message-ID:  <200711281036.31180.cordeiro@cert.br>
In-Reply-To: <20071128114355.D80898@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200711200941.52719.johnpollock@bellsouth.net> <20071128114355.D80898@fledge.watson.org>

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Hi,

On Wednesday, 28 de November de 2007, Robert Watson <Robert Watson 
<rwatson@freebsd.org>> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, JP wrote:
> 
> > --and--
> > Checking `lkm'... You have   131 process hidden for readdir command
> > chkproc: Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed
> 
> I wonder if it's trying to use procfs, which isn't mounted by default in 
> FreeBSD, and as a result reporting that /proc is empty (which is expected). 
> You could try mounting procfs and see if the message goes away, which would 
> answer the question -- however, we don't generaly advise mounting procfs 
> unless it is required, as it is a deprecated feature.

In fact it's a bug in the chkproc. We are working on it to be fixed in the 
next chkrootkit version (0.48).

Cordeiro

> 
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
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