KasperskI reported virus in every GNU/Linux distribution!
Today,
KasperskI Labs reported that every GNU/Linux
distribution contains virus able to raise the privilege level of regular users to super user.
The virus has suspect name
su.
The scenario of its work is very easy: user who wants to raise its privileges just runs this program
and enters root's password. KasperskI's analyst told that it is only a proof-of-concept of attacking
Linux distributions and more such attacks will come. And in fact, his words are confirmed today,
because
gtksu and
kdesu were also confirmed as vulnerable!
It is very easy to get rid of it, just remove it from your system.