A backdoor in xz

Posted Mar 31, 2024 1:29 UTC (Sun) by DimeCadmium (subscriber, #157243)
In reply to: A backdoor in xz by niner
Parent article: A backdoor in xz

/lib/modules $ du -hs `uname -r`
64M 6.6.13-gentoo

I'm not sure if you're aware of `make menuconfig`, but unlike systemd, you actually CAN effectively turn off parts of the kernel that you don't need.

A backdoor in xz

Posted Mar 31, 2024 1:31 UTC (Sun) by DimeCadmium (subscriber, #157243) [Link]

Oh and here's the actual modules BTW:

700K 6.6.13-gentoo/misc/vboxdrv.ko
48K 6.6.13-gentoo/misc/vboxnetflt.ko
20K 6.6.13-gentoo/misc/vboxnetadp.ko
59M 6.6.13-gentoo/video/nvidia.ko
8.0K 6.6.13-gentoo/video/nvidia-peermem.ko
1.7M 6.6.13-gentoo/video/nvidia-modeset.ko
16K 6.6.13-gentoo/video/nvidia-drm.ko
2.5M 6.6.13-gentoo/video/nvidia-uvm.ko