Possible infection of /sbin/init

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Apr 5 15:01:57 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 09:31 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: 
> On 04/05/2012 09:26 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > When I chkrootkit on my F16 machine I get a response:
> > Searching for Suckit rootkit .. Warning:/sbin/init INFECTED
> > 
> > I assume since init is only a link to systemd
> > this sounds serious. I am an a system isolated from the Internet by a
> > router. What should my reaction to this be?
> 
> 
> Hmmmm... I get the same thing.
> 
> It's a false positive and been reported.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636231
> 
> 
> -- 
> -- Steve

Thanks. That's a relief.
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