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From: brant williams <brant@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] pax, core2duo, suspicious activity
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:59:18
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0802070746001.30156@nerv.tnarb.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] pax, core2duo, suspicious activity by Steve Buzonas
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5 Well, I was watching logs with xtail when the crash occurred. I have a
6 cron job that calls eix-sync each day at 11:00. The log entries were sent
7 to xtail, but didn't get synchronised to disk, so there's a gap. The box
8 went dark right after that.
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10 I rebooted it and set lilo to boot the previous kernel. It died again
11 during shutdown <no console to output info to though, as the box is
12 headless>.
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14 What would you suggest running strace on? Maybe init with the '-f' flag
15 (to follow child processes)? I'll have some time to take a closer look
16 this weekend and will try to get additional information.
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18 I'll also test with 2.6.24 and recheck my configs.
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20 As for web-rsync, I've never used it nor had the need... eix-sync has been
21 working fine for several months now.
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24 brant williams
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29 On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Steve Buzonas wrote:
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31 > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 20:09:20 -0500
32 > From: Steve Buzonas <steve.buzonas@×××××.com>
33 > Reply-To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
34 > To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
35 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] pax, core2duo, suspicious activity
36 >
37 > On Feb 6, 2008 8:57 AM, brant williams <brant@×××××.net> wrote:
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43 >> Hi paxguy =)
44 >>
45 >> I experienced the same issue after upgrading to
46 >> hardened-sources-2.6.23-r4 this past weekend. Previously, I'd been using
47 >> hardened-sources-2.6.22-r8 for ~30 days with no discernable problems.
48 >> After checking both config files, though, it looks like I may have rushed
49 >> through too quickly (sdiff attached).
50 >>
51 >> I've got a screenshot of the log entry that occurred right before the
52 >> crash (png attached), and can provide the System.map and kernel image to
53 >> you off-list if that would help.
54 >>
55 >> Thank you for your efforts.
56 >>
57 >>
58 >> brant williams
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63 >> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, pageexec@××××××××.hu wrote:
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65 >>> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:49:12 +0200
66 >>> From: pageexec@××××××××.hu
67 >>> Reply-To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
68 >>> To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
69 >>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] pax, core2duo, suspicious activity
70 >>>
71 >>> On 6 Feb 2008 at 10:24, wrote:
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73 >>>> SSH session droped, all daemons stopping too. On the monitor a get
74 >>>> "Suspicious activity.... bla-bla PaX... bla-bla...
75 >>>
76 >>> can you post the precise message? even a screenshot would be fine
77 >>> (try to boot with a high resolution frame buffer mode to get as much
78 >>> info as you can). also i'll need the System.map file and probably
79 >>> vmlinux as well.
80 >>>
81 >>>> When I recompile kernel without PaX, system works normal withouts
82 >>>> kernel-panics.
83 >>>
84 >>> did you determine which PaX feature triggers the problem?
85 >>>
86 >>> also, would be nice if you could try out the 2.6.24 test patch.
87 >>>
88 >>> PS: if you enable HIGHMEM64G/PAGEEXEC then PaX will make use of
89 >>> the NX bit.
90 >>>
91 >>> --
92 >>> gentoo-hardened@l.g.o mailing list
93 >>>
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104 > What occurs before the crash? Can you do strace? Does emerge-webrsync
105 > work?
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107 > --
108 > Thank you,
109 >
110 > Steve Buzonas Jr.
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