On 24 Feb 2006 at 17:00, pietro ferrari wrote:
> On 2/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 24 Feb 2006 at 13:18, Dale Pontius wrote:
> > > Doesn't prevent rootkits, only raises the bar. From what I've read on
> > > the kernel list, there are still ways to get code into a running kernel,
> >
> > such as?
> 
> writting directly to /dev/mem

quote from an earlier post in the thread:

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You should
enable the /dev/mem protection feature as well, since rootkits can be
inserted into the kernel via other methods than kernel modules.
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this feature (among many others) has existed in grsec for many years
now.

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