From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jan 28 9: 3:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1238437B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:03:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (mailhost1-sfldmi.sfldmi.ameritech.net [206.141.193.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE8043F43 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:03:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from elh@outreachnetworks.com) Received: from preacher ([66.73.178.5]) by mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with SMTP id <20030128170251.UJL26543.mailhost.det2.ameritech.net@preacher> for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:02:51 -0500 Received: (nullmailer pid 12527 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:02:58 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:02:58 -0500 From: Eric L Howard To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chkrootkit & FBSD-5 Message-ID: <20030128170258.GH10966@outreachnetworks.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: <20030128085617.L167@woody.ops.uunet.co.za> <200301281516.16413.bofh@online.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301281516.16413.bofh@online.ie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Favorite-Scripture: Romans 8:18 X-Theocratic-Rule-Advocate: http://www.crossmovement.com X-Registered-Secret-Agent: Agent Double-Naught Seven X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At a certain time, now past [Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:16:07PM +0000], Sascha Luck spake thusly: > Hello all, > > on my CURRENT boxes, chkrootkit (v0.38) reports the following binaries > as INFECTED: > > chfn > chsh > date > ls > ps > > as well as 7 hidden PIDs. > > recompiling/reinstalling the binaries seems to have no effect. I'm > tempted to regard these as false positives - anyone else notice this > behaviour? The release notes seem to indicate that chkrootkit isn't ready for RELENG_5_0. ~elh -- Eric L. Howard e l h @ o u t r e a c h n e t w o r k s . c o m ------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.OutreachNetworks.com 313.297.9900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JabberID: elh@jabber.org Advocate of the Theocratic Rule To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message