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Date:      Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:00:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
Cc:        Sansonetti Laurent <lorenzo@linuxbe.org>, deepak@ai.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel-loadable Root Kits
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010908205737.14543A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010909001951.A6949@hades.hell.gr>

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:Instead of worrying after the module has been loaded it's much safer
:to run the kernel in securelevel>=1 when modules cannot be loaded
:without a reboot to single-user mode.
:

Not entirely true.  They are called kernel bugs... Not the proper url for
this, but good enough:

	http://julianor.tripod.com/freebsd-kernel-bof.txt



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| Andrew R. Reiter 
| arr@fledge.watson.org
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