[Bug 1808882] Re: false positive on tcpd

[Thomas Ward]

I emailed upstream about this and they indicated that this issue is
fixed in a future release of chkrootkit.  This release does not have a
timeline though, so I do not know when exactly this will land upstream.

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Title:
  false positive on tcpd

Status in chkrootkit package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in chkrootkit source package in Bionic:
  Triaged
Status in chkrootkit source package in Cosmic:
  Triaged
Status in chkrootkit source package in Disco:
  Triaged
Status in chkrootkit package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  This has apparently been a thing since at least 16.04

  Install a clean version of Ubuntu, install chkrootkit, run a check.

  tcpd will report as infected.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: chkrootkit 0.52-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-42.45-lowlatency 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-42-lowlatency x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: MATE
  Date: Mon Dec 17 18:30:29 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-05 (12 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  SourcePackage: chkrootkit
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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