rkhunter warnings, maybe yum issues?

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Jan 31 19:09:38 UTC 2014


On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:17:06 -0500, William wrote:

> 3. Since updating to F-20, I'm seeing this warning:
> 
> [18:56:18]
> [18:56:18] Checking for GasKit Rootkit...
> [18:56:18]   Checking for file '/dev/dev/gaskit/sshd/sshdd'  [ Not found ]
> [18:56:18]   Checking for directory '/dev/dev'               [ Found ]
> [18:56:18]   Checking for directory '/dev/dev/gaskit'        [ Not found ]
> [18:56:18]   Checking for directory '/dev/dev/gaskit/sshd'   [ Not found ]
> [18:56:18] Warning: GasKit Rootkit                           [ Warning ]
> [18:56:18]          Directory '/dev/dev' found
> [18:56:18]
> 
> The directory "/dev/dev/" contains one entry:
> 
> bash.6[dev]: ll
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jan 29 13:48 resume -> ../../sda5
> bash.7[dev]:
> 
> Doing "file resume" gives this:
> 
> bash.21[dev]: file resume
> resume: broken symbolic link to `../../sda5'
> bash.22[dev]:
> 
> I see no "sda5" in the root directory.  A "df" shows no filesystem. An 
> "ls -a" of the root directory shows one file I did not expect:
> 
> -rw-r--r--.   1 root root 178665 Jan 29 18:50 .readahead
> 
> It seems to be binary.
> 
> Do I have a security problem?  What are "/dev/dev/resume" and "/.readahead"?

It's a false positive.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1045116 for the /dev/dev case.
And /.readahead ist from the readahead service. Systemd nowadays.


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