[Full-disclosure] Plague Proof of Concept Linux backdoor

[Rik Bobbaers]

hijacker at oldum.net wrote:
> Are you saying I just injected my system with an account with root access
> hiding somewhere? Please, clarify.

as you can tell by the subject, this is a BACKDOOR, you run it as root, 
and yes, than it works and creates a "new root" account

you ran it as a normal user, so it won't work (you can't read 
/etc/shadow as normal user (du'uh))

grtz,

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