I just did a re-install of "upstart", then ran chkrootkit and bingo, it 
flags sbin/init as infected with the suckit rootkit.  Is it really 
infected? A false positive. Or is the newly installed 'upstart" package 
installing a new infected init file, or infecting the existing init file?
The md5 of the newly infected file is:  
9fc881364679290346cda8236563025e  same as last infection.

I would appear that by updating the Ubuntu package "*upstart*", the file 
/sbin/init becomes infected or is replaced with an infected version.

Hope this helps.
U.Betcha

On 11/18/2010 09:57 AM, U.Betcha wrote:
> UPSTART: event-based init daemon
>
> *upstart *is a replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles
> starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during
> shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.
>
> My machine has Ubuntu _upstart_ version 0.6.5-7, installed.  My updates
> are served from the Ubuntu Main server.
>
>
> On 11/18/2010 04:10 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
>    
>> MintUpdate is not part of the Ubuntu archives. Can you isolate the
>> specific package URL that you downloaded that chkrootkit is flagging?
>>
>> ** Visibility changed to: Public
>>
>> ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
>>          Status: New =>   Incomplete
>>
>>
>>      
>

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ubuntu 10.04 /sbin/init infected by update (suckit)
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