Non-Malicious Linux Malware?

[Morgan Storey]

Hi Dale and everyone else,

This isn't what I would typically call Malware, it could be repurposed into
injecting into a html stream that has a shell script in it, or it could be
snuck into a package, possibly if the maintainer is distracted which would
make it inline with the Malware name, but it is no more malware than me
sending you a zip containing a shell script you really need that has the old
rm -rf /* at the bottom, then telling you to chmod +x it and run it.
Personally I think the guy should realease it to at least a few Linux and
Boinc dev's as he may have stumbled upon a vulnerability if it can as he
says persist via cron. I am all for responsible disclosure.

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Regards
Morgan Storey
IT Security Specialist.


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Dale <quail.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I found this to bit of an interesting read:
>
> http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/12/01/0025213/Ethics-of-Releasing-Non-Malicious-Linux-Malware
>
> Regards
> Dale
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