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Re: Re: New LSASS-based worm finally here (Sasser)


From: Jason <security () brvenik com>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 22:42:38 -0400


Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote:

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[1] Approaching the record of worms in other OS, which, I believe, is held by Scalper (10 days from patch to worm). But hey, they could browse the source changes for that one.


It did not attack an OS directly but I believe the witty worm [1] holds the record to date. A 1 day window from advisory to release, it attacked and destroyed a security component that was supposed to protect against these issues...

[1] - http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/witty/

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