Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.28 BUGS
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:33:25
Message-Id: 200901141833.13668.dirk.heinrichs@online.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.28 BUGS by Daniel Pielmeier
1 Am Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2009 14:36:11 schrieb Daniel Pielmeier:
2 > 2009/1/14 David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com>:
3 > > Can a program, i.e. rrdtool, be tainted? I'd not think so since the
4 > > program is in user space, not kernel space.
5 >
6 > According to LWN [1] tainting the kernel from user space is possible.
7 >
8 > [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/184879/
9
10 Although I've read every weekly edition since a couple of years, I didn't
11 remember :-)
12
13 So does that mean chkrootkit is going nuts on David's machine?
14
15 Bye...
16
17 Dirk

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