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Re: Two birds with one worm.


From: Vision Net Administration <aaron () visn net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:04:23 -0400

3Com lanmodems, single channel are affected by this as well.

Aaron Woldman
Vision Net Ltd

Jason Hansen wrote:

It looks like the "Code Red" worm has the added side effect of crashing
Cisco (675/678) DSL CPEs running any CBOS prior to 2.4.1. The GET it sends
looking for IIS servers hardlocks any modem with the web management
interface enabled.

CBOS v2.4.2 is unaffected.  Also, turning off the web interface with 'set
web disabled' also prevents the crashes.

        Jason Hansen

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