[PLUG] Got hacked last night - HELP!

Michael Rasmussen mikeraz at patch.com
Wed Oct 6 05:43:02 UTC 2004


On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:04:18PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Which won't catch anything already installed, and what makes you think
> rpm wasn't replaced with a version that gives the output the attacker
> wants?  Once you're compromised, you can't trust any binary on your
> system, and that includes RPM.
> 
> And don't call me Russ.

Paul (sorry) I haven't encountered a hacked rpm yet.  Certainly reinstalling 
rpm is a trivial start.

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