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Date:      Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:35:47 -0600 (CST)
From:      Brian Mitchell <brian@saturn.net>
To:        Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
Cc:        FREEBSD-SECURITY-L <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Risk of having bpf0? (was URGENT: Packet sniffer found on my system)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.961212133458.3607C-100000@redmare.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961212140716.27209B-100000@nap.io.org>

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On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Brian Tao wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Brian Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> > If you disable it, remember to take lkm out with it.
> 
>     How do you disable lkm?  I don't see any option in the LINT config
> to do so.  I could delete /lkm and mod{load,unload,stat}, but they can
> be easily replaced by an intruder.

In securelevel 2, (k)mem is not writable; I'm guessing this will cripple
lkm, although I am not possitive.

Brian Mitchell / brian@saturn.net





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