linux-kernel - Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to alinuxinterfaceforon access scanning

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0808142228450.12859@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:33:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	davecb@....com, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Mihai Don??u <mdontu@...defender.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, malware-list@...ts.printk.net,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to	alinuxinterfaceforon
 access scanning

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, david@...g.hm wrote:

> again, libmalware.so is not referring to any specific body of code, it's 
> referring to the concept that the handling of open/mmap/read/etc and scanning 
> is done via a userspace library rather then by the kernel. if everyone can 
> agree on that concept then hashing out the details of _which_ library it gets 
> put in is a smaller detail.

one reason to layer scanners is that you could have one that just checks 
to see if the file was deployed from a OS package, if it was (and still 
has the same hash as the package manager thinks it should have) it sets a 
flag that other scanners could look for (if they see it they can skip 
scanning the file)

David Lang
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