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Profanity in error message

Bug #147864 reported by Troy Kammerdiener
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Invalid
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Declined for Gutsy by Colin Watson

Bug Description

I am running Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS. I recently added the kubuntu-desktop task using aptitude (I know you shouldn't add all that GUI to a server -- I had other needs in mind at the time.) When I tried to reboot after the update, I received the error message shown in the screen snapshot at http://aslan.nix.selu.edu/~tkammerd/public_research/profanity_sample.jpg. I'm sure that Canonical does not intend to have profanity embedded in its official distributions, so I am reporting this as a bug.

Troy Kammerdiener
Asst. Professor of Computer Science
Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, LA, USA

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Troy Kammerdiener (tkammerdiener) wrote :
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Martin Olsson (mnemo) wrote :

Should be an easy fix? At least it would be nice to have it escalated upstream.

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Harrison Conlin (harrisony) wrote :

Looks like this root kit to me. (Anyone else care to comment?)
http://seclists.org/incidents/2003/Oct/0071.html

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jcfp (jcfp) wrote :

Indeed this is from the SucKIT rootkit; the ostentatious usage of the f-word in error messages is a real giveaway. Pull the network cable please, your system has been compromised.

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Dax Solomon Umaming (knightlust) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. However, this is a rootkit, not a bug.
See: http://seclists.org/incidents/2003/Oct/0071.html
I am closing this bug as Invalid.

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Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) wrote :

These two links may help finding out more about rootkits and cleaning them up:

http://cayfer.bilkent.edu.tr/~cayfer/linux/Detecting_and_Removing_Rootkits.html
http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=34935

Looking for information about installling and using chkrootkit in Ubuntu may also help. There is a search engine for all Ubuntu-related sites, in beta, at http://www.uboontu.com/ - Please note the Uboontu Search Engine is not related or associated with Canonical Ltd. or Google Inc., it only makes use of the resources made freely available by them. It is built and updated cooperatively by community members.

Also take a look at a few tools you can use in the future:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSecurityTools

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