Software Update: Rootkit Hunter 1.1.9

Rootkit Hunter version 1.19 has been released. This program is developed for Linux and *BSD and is intended for administrators to find and remove any installed root kits. The program also provides the option to point out any security vulnerabilities. The changelog informs us about the following:

New:

• Added RH-Sharpe’s rootkit (rootkit)
• Added SHV5 rootkit (rootkit)
• Added special test for tripwire
• Added support for metalog (syslog daemon)
• Added support for ALTLinux 2.2 and 2.4
• Added support for CentOS 3.3
• Added support for Gentoo 1.6
• Added support for FreeBSD 4.10 (alpha platform)
• Added support for SuSE SLES8. Thanks to Mario Lenz
• Added support for SuSE 9.2 (i586)
• Added support for Fedora Core 3
• Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES/WS release 4
• Added hashes for Fedora Core 3. Thanks to Steph
• Official port is now available for ALTLinux
• Change text when an old software package has been found. This will happen with backporting operating systems (Red Hat, Fedora etc)

Changes:

• Improved logging for lsof test
• Updated hashes for Fedora Core 1
• Updated hashes for Debian woody
• Updated hashes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES/WS release 3
• Updated hashes for Slackware 9
• Updated hashes for Slackware 10
• Updated hashes for SuSE 9.1
• Updated wishlist/todo, updated readme and manpage.
• Code cleanup (added more remarks, cleanup of old/buggy things)..
• Improved logging

Bug fixes:

• Changed binary search path due typo. Thanks to Bertrand