18.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Linux Worm Obviously Spreading Rapidly
«An Internet worm named Ramen is attacking servers running under
the Linux distribution by Red Hat and apparently is spreading quite quickly.
It's activities stood out by augmented scans on Remote Procedure Call Services (RPC).
The worm utilizes two security gaps known long before inside of
FTP-Server wuftpd
and the program rpc.statd, which obviously still not have been remove from
many Linux machines. Already in September 2000 the Computer Emergency Response Team
(CERT) gave warning of
augmented attacks
of this kind.»
See title link for the complete article (German).
[News message: 18. Jan. 2001, 01:15] [Comments: 0]
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