F17 - false positive? -> Fwd: rkhunter Daily Run on testserver

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Jun 14 08:41:51 UTC 2012


On 06/14/2012 04:16 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> after upgrade a test-VM to F17 i get this rkhunter warnings
> i can not really believe that there is a rootkit not existing
> on the F16 setup and think this is a false positive
>
> can anybody confirm this or should i make a bugreport now?
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Betreff: rkhunter Daily Run on testserver
> Datum: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:49:14 +0200
> Von: root
> An: rhsoft at test.rh
>
> --------------------- Start Rootkit Hunter Update ---------------------
> [ Rootkit Hunter version 1.4.0 ]
>
> Checking rkhunter data files...
>   Checking file mirrors.dat                                  [ No update ]
>   Checking file programs_bad.dat                             [ No update ]
>   Checking file backdoorports.dat                            [ No update ]
>   Checking file suspscan.dat                                 [ No update ]
>   Checking file i18n/cn                                      [ No update ]
>   Checking file i18n/de                                      [ No update ]
>   Checking file i18n/en                                      [ No update ]
>   Checking file i18n/zh                                      [ No update ]
>   Checking file i18n/zh.utf8                                 [ No update ]
>
> ---------------------- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan ----------------------
> Warning: 'Spanish' Rootkit                        [ Warning ]
>          File '/bin/ad' found
> Warning: Hidden file found: /usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression
>
> ----------------------- End Rootkit Hunter Scan -----------------------
>

Well, I have no /bin/ad file and "yum whatprovides /bin/ad" returns nothing.... on
both F16 and F17

/usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz   is part of krb5-libs on F17 but not F16.


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