Intresting problem concerning libresolv.so.2

From: Sam Evans <sam(at)neuroflux.com>
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 15:00:19 EDT

I've run into an interesting dilema with a machine that's running Solaris 8.. It would appear as if the /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2 file changed, but didn't really change..

What I mean is this.. We run Tripwire on this box, and Tripwire reported that the hash sums were different than what it expected. Everything else was the same (timestamps, inode, block values, etc). This would indicate that the contents changed inside the file..

What's also interesting is that this is the *only* file that was listed in the tripwire report for the day. Nothing else changed (at least according to Tripwire).

Anyone have any thoughts on this? For what it's worth the box does run sendmail, and was patched for the March vulnerability, but not the April vulnerability.

Thanks,
Sam

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Received on Thu Apr 17 17:43:17 2003