Re: CodeRed

[Ryan Russell <ryan () securityfocus com>]

Glad your machine wasn't hit.

I'm a bit stunned at the moment by a note to Bugtraq from a guy at LBL who
claims that 1.17 Million different IP addresses have tried his address
space, meaning that at least that many different IIS boxes have been
nailed.  I'm rather amazed.

                                Ryan

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Dave Laird wrote:

> Good evening, Ryan...
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Ryan Russell wrote:
>
> > You've got the evidence of an attempt (actually, you've probably had
> > plenty of attempts) but there is 0 chance that this worm will work on
> > Apache on Linux as-is.  Apache responded with a 404, as it should.  The
> > worm uses Windows system calls, and takes advantage of a hole that only
> > exists on IIS.  You needn't be concerned.
>
> WHEW! While I'm not particularly a newbie, nonetheless when I saw the
> attempts in my log file, I nearly had a cow in full-blown panic mode.
> However, what truly set me back on my heels is that, in investigating
> several of my associates who *do* run IIS, I discovered *most* of them are
> already infected or have already installed the "patch". This is not good at
> all. I was frankly *stunned* by the potential this worm has to damage if not
> entirely nullify IIS Web Servers everywhere in the world.
>
> My extreme thanks to everyone on this list for bringing it to my attention.
> Now I can slip back into relative obscurity, uh... right? 8-)
>
> Dave
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