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Re: IOS Rookit: the sky isn't falling (yet)

  • From: Alexander Harrowell
  • Date: Tue May 27 08:42:31 2008 
>An alternative rootkit ? Privilege level 16 used by the Lawful Intercept
>[12] feature could be abused to do some of this too. Or the other way
>around: use a "patched" IOS to keep an eye on Law Enforcement's >operations
on the router as privilege level 15 doesn't allow it and the only
>alternative is to sniff the traffic export.

The combination of rootkits and specially privileged Lawful Intercept
functions is a very dangerous one. This was precisely what was exploited in
the now-legendary and still unsolved Vodafone Greece hack.

Alex