Bug#1002558: chkrootkit: false positive: knockd

2021-12-28 Thread Marcos Fouces
Hello, i believe that it is not appropriate to hide processes that, we suppose, are legitimate [1]. It is somewhat easy to parse any regular expression, and customize files/directories names of the rootkit that match it, thus avoiding its detection. Please, use etc/chkrootkit/chkrootkit.ignore

Bug#1002558: chkrootkit: false positive: knockd

2021-12-28 Thread Richard Lewis
hi harry, thanks for the report - I don't think this a bug per se, but it is helpful reminder of knockd while knockd is not a malicious packet sniffer, it does "sniff packets" (not the greatest term in any case), so chkrootkit is working as intended by flagging it. It's the classic case of a