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Weakness In Linux Kernel's Binary Format

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-right-on-this dept.

Goodfellas writes, "This document aims to demonstrate a design weakness found in the handling of simply linked lists used to register binary formats handled by the Linux kernel. It affects all the kernel families (2.0/2.2/2.4/2.6), allowing the insertion of infection modules in kernel space that can be used by malicious users to create infection tools, for example rootkits. Proof of concept, details, and proposed solution (in PDF form): English, Spanish.

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  1. lol i wonder if... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i wonder if m$ paid them for this pre-vista release FUD - so they can point to something which n00bs will be like '0mg!!!!11 wtf linux blows!!! all kernels are b0rk3d!!!'

  2. haha pdf? not important then. BEWARE OF TROJAN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    nobody who makes a PDF has anything worthwhile to say.

    unless of course the PDF is a trojan that breaks out of all the holes in your PDF viewer.

  3. LOL OPEN SOURCE IS TEH SUCK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    LOLOLOL