Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:45:16 +0900 | From | Bruce Harada <> | Subject | Re: Hardwired drivers are going away? |
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 04:49:52 +0100 Andreas Ferber <aferber@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:54:58AM +0900, Bruce Harada wrote: > > > > ...and how would you guarantee that this setting remains set, in the face > > of some nasty little cracker screwing around with /dev/kmem? > > If the attacker gained the ability to play with /dev/kmem, he can > already load modules into the kernel, regardless if the kernel is > actually compiled with module support or not. You can find various > papers describing how to do it via google, and AFAIK some rootkits are > already using those techniques, so it's even "scriptkiddy-ready".
Er... that was exactly what I meant - perhaps you meant to reply to the parent post?
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