Probably because of prelinking... More details here:

http://www.ossec.net/wiki/Know_How:Check_Sums

Thanks,

--
Daniel B. Cid
dcid ( at ) ossec.net

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Chris Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Recently, I received about 400+ "Alert Level 7" notifications, for a single 
> server, all related to "Integrity checksum changed" events.
>
> I am really worried about this, but I can see no reason why it has happened.
>
> The situation has not re-occurred and has not happened on any of the other 
> servers we have OSSEC installed on.
>
> Can anyone please explain what could cause this?  I am hoping it's some sort 
> of obscure but OK OSSEC anomaly!
>
> Cheers,
> --
> ChrisP (slightly panicky)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSSEC HIDS
> Sent: 28 July 2011 08:46
> To: Chris Phillips
> Subject: OSSEC Notification (myserver) - Alert level 7
>
> OSSEC HIDS Notification.
> 2011 Jul 28 08:46:23
>
> Received From: (myserver) >syscheck
> Rule: 550 fired (level 7) -> "Integrity checksum changed."
> Portion of the log(s):
>
> Integrity checksum changed for: '/sbin/debugfs'
> Old md5sum was: 'fd96fc82b74a47577835538ccf6d2adb'
> New md5sum is : 'c4c01019d7806734e857996adc63cf17'
> Old sha1sum was: 'c57a92218bd321ff8b27c154e2f5b29185530728'
> New sha1sum is : '4550b5743fe3368bc1bac683c60c14c232b671e5'
>
>  --END OF NOTIFICATION
>

Reply via email to