Dear rkhunter mailing list,
I performed a scan (rkhunter --check) scan today on my Ubuntu 10.04 desktop and
I received the following warning:
Checking /dev for suspicious file types [ Warning ]
[20:44:14] Warning: Suspicious file types found in /dev:
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-2694123416: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-2806358031: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-370791018: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-2823402446: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-2464899192: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-4225408492: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-690869609: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-2678224584: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-2641649888: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-337269030: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-1091075560: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-1201625675: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-352696925: data
[20:44:14] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-1037240337: AmigaOS bitmap font
[20:44:14]
/dev/shm/mono-shared-1000-shared_fileshare-cobra-laptop-Linux-i686-36-12-0: data
[20:44:15]
/dev/shm/mono-shared-1000-shared_data-cobra-laptop-Linux-i686-312-12-0: data
[20:44:15] /dev/shm/mono.1847: data
[20:44:15] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-1527123447: data
[20:44:15] /dev/shm/pulse-shm-1497883407: data
[20:44:15] Checking for hidden files and directories [ Warning ]
[20:44:15] Warning: Hidden directory found: /etc/.java
[20:44:15] Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.udev
[20:44:15] Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.initramfs
I'm new to rkhunter and I'm not sure what do those warnings mean. can you
please clarify that to me? are they critical?
Waiting for your reply
Best Regards
Abdulla
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