full-disclosure - Re: Plague Proof of Concept Linux backdoor

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Message-ID: <453CA177.20809@cc.kuleuven.be>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:03:19 +0200
From: Rik Bobbaers <Rik.Bobbaers@...kuleuven.be>
To: hijacker@...um.net
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Plague Proof of Concept Linux backdoor

hijacker@...um.net wrote:
> Are you saying I just injected my system with an account with root access
> hiding somewhere? Please, clarify.

as you can tell by the subject, this is a BACKDOOR, you run it as root, 
and yes, than it works and creates a "new root" account

you ran it as a normal user, so it won't work (you can't read 
/etc/shadow as normal user (du'uh))

grtz,

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