[Talk] Media Release: OPEN SOURCE USERS UNAFFECTED BY SASSER WORM - THE INTERNET KEEPS GOING DESPITE FLAWED PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE

[Stephen Jenkin]

On Mon, 10 May 2004, David Purdue wrote:

> Just to play devil's advocate...
<SNIP> 
> This release fails to mention that the Morris Worm propagated by 
> exploiting weaknesses in Sendmail, an open source program.

rsh, fingerd and sendmail.
There were binaries for VAX & SUN.

http://www.snowplow.org/tom/worm/infect.html

They were all well known & reported security holes the vendors would not
patch ;-)

We haven't seen anything as sophisticated in the Windows world -
multi-platform, multi-exploit, rate controlled (that didn't work so well).

sj

> ;-)
> 
> DavidP
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