Re: Have I caught a firmware attack in the act? Or am I just paranoid?

2019-08-17 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
I have now done the check from a boot DVD: clean, but as already noted, there are places it doesn't check. On 16/08/2019 20:14, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Concerning your program I have seen that it uses /var/lib/dpkg/info/$2.md5sums. This is inherently unsafe because an attacker can simply

Re: Have I caught a firmware attack in the act? Or am I just paranoid?

2019-08-17 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Read only switches are a security feature because you can read the content without the fear that it may be altered.[...] The read-only switch makes it as safe as a read only burnt dvd. The physical read-only switch on SD cards isn't: it's enforced at software level, not hardware level.

External check

2019-08-17 Thread Security Tracker
CVE-2019-10224: RESERVED -- The output might be a bit terse, but the above ids are known elsewhere, check the references in the tracker. The second part indicates the status of that id in the tracker at the moment the script was run.