Ubuntu: Constant "dd" process?

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Can someone shine some light on this issue for me?

ps ax shows the following:
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3292 ?      Ss   0:00 /bin/dd bs 1 if /proc/kmsg of /var/run/klogd/kmsg
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This is a constant parasite on each Ubuntu (Kubuntu really) I run.
While I can tell what this might be doing, why?  And why just on Ubuntu?

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