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Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by tux3 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @06:26PM (#39879285)
One idea may be to create a patched version of ld-linux itself with added sanity checks while the process loads.

For something much more heavy-handed, force the pages in sensitive sections to fault, either in the kernel or in a hypervisor. Then look at where the access is coming from in the page fault handler.

I don't think you can reliably differentiate a backdoor executing a command, and a legitimate user logged in with ssh running a command once the backdoor is already installed. But the way backdoors install themselves is where they really break the rules.

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