[ale] Linux Virus

[pete.hardie at dvsg.sciatl.com (Pete Hardie)]

Tomas wrote:
> 
> Ive thought of a way to make a linux virus.  Its fairly straight forward.  Instead of just reproducing itself
> in a binary it changes the binary it copies itself to suid root, then when any user runs it, they run it as
> root and can spread it to any binary on the system.  freaky huh?

That only works if the root user is caught first.  Non-root can't set suid to
root, so the virus would
need to be root to first infect - and if you've got root, you don't need to
worry about getting another
user to infect.

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