OpenSSL Worm ?

[delta () FaVeVe Uni-Stuttgart de (Helmut Springer)]

On 14 Sep 2002 at 05:37 +0200, Solar Eclipse wrote:
> The new variant has a new exploit section and targets Apache/SSL
> servers, exploiting the recent vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.6.9d.

Where recent is 30 Jun 2002.


> The worm leaves no entry in httpd.log and does not crash Apache.
> After exploiting the server, it uploads its source as /tmp/.bugtraq.c
> and compiles it as /tmp/.bugtraq

It sets up a kind of peer to peer network using 2002/udp, seems to
be quite noisy (bad design or bad estimation?).  Other flovours to
come might use other ports...

The worm can execute arbitrary commands, so it has an upgrade path.
A more silent flavour might make a more efficient use of it...

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