sendmail worm

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1 total messages Started by Jim Crammond Mon, 07 Nov 1988 10:47

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Author: Jim Crammond
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1988 10:47

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You may have heard of a virus that has attacked arpanet over the weekend.

I believe this is in fact a "worm" that exploits a hole in bsd4.3 related
sendmail which has been compiled with the debug option.

For details I suggest you read the RISKS digest V7 Issues 69 and 70.

A note for Sun users: the standard sendmail binary is not compiled with
the debug code and therefore is safe from this attack.

-Jim.

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