Impact: chkrootkit tool reports false positives in hardy, and the option to ignore certain known false positives is only present in later versions. This impacts the usefulness of the tool.
This has been addressed by backporting the "-e" option from the newer release to let administrators set a whitelist.
SRU Request:
Impact: chkrootkit tool reports false positives in hardy, and the option to ignore certain known false positives is only present in later versions. This impacts the usefulness of the tool.
This has been addressed by backporting the "-e" option from the newer release to let administrators set a whitelist.
A minimal debdiff is attached.