Fedora Core 3 Rootkit

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 15:19 -0500, Alex Ackerman wrote:
> This may seem like an odd request, but I am doing a masters thesis on
> SELinux and I’m using Fedora Core 3 as a test platform. One of the
> areas I am trying to test are additional uses for SELinux (beyond the
> obvious “securing a system”). I’m looking for a rootkit or other known
> vulnerability that is known to in
> stall on a base FC3 system

I'm not aware of any rootkits that work on FC3, mostly because most
rootkit module writers haven't moved to 2.6 yet.

As for vulnerabilities... the execshield tooling is quite effective in
preventing a lot of the root exploits out there (but of course not all)

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