Ubuntu
chkrootkit package

  1. Bug #279752
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 279752

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François Marier (fmarier) wrote :

(Note: I am the Debian maintainer for chkrootkit)

Hi Alexander, I have just built a fixed package for Hardy in my PPA:

  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fmarier/ubuntu hardy main

Could you try it out and let me know if you think it's fine.

I have attached a debdiff between the package that's in Hardy and the one I just built. As you can see, this is a trivial fix and I can't see it having any impact at all on the rest of the package.

Aside from the patch being safe, I think that this fix would qualify for a Stable Release Update since the problem that Alexander reported could lead to loss of user data depending on which process is actually killed by chkrootkit (for example, a mail server, open office, etc.).

This is fixed in the version of chkrootkit that's in intrepid, so it's only a problem for the current LTS release of Ubuntu.