OT: Linux Malware is possible? if it is :(

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 15:09:46 Dave Ihnat wrote:
> Secondly, once you (as the bad guy) get a user to run something for you,
> you can start poking at the system itself.  In this case, you're looking
> for a flaw in the system security itself--either misconfiguration, or
> an actual hole in some program or service that a normal user can run
> or use.  Much harder than Windows, but such flaws have been encountered
> in the past.

SELinux exists precisely for this purpose --- to combat privilege escalation 
and contain misbehaving apps. Only kernel vulnerabilities are out of its 
reach, AFAIK.

Best, :-)
Marko