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Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-11-06

Software developers on Wednesday detected and thwarted a hacker's scheme to submerge a slick backdoor in the next version of the Linux kernel, but security experts say the abortive caper proves that extremely subtle source code tampering is more than just the stuff of paranoid speculation.

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Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks 2003-11-17
Anonymous
The single = in an if statement is a classical C novice mistake - and one that the most experienced programmers still need to watch out for. In this case, I doubt that it was a mistake. If (current->uid == 0) was intended, it would mean that root was exempt from the check for redundant flags. I'm no...

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