RE: CodeRed

["Fulton L. Preston Jr." <fulton () prestons org>]

The actual number of 1.17 million was a mistake.  The author posted a
corrected figure:

<Original message>
Damn, serious methodology error in crunching that.  The correct
figure is (I now believe :-) 293,000.

                Vern
</message>


-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Russell [mailto:ryan () securityfocus com]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:09 PM
To: Dave Laird
Cc: incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: CodeRed 


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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