Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!

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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 06:07:42 -0600
From: cstone <cstone@pobox.com>
To: Michael Bacarella <mbac@netgraft.com>

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:11:41AM -0500, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> I'm getting massive packet loss to various points on the globe.
> I am seeing a lot of these in my tcpdump output on each
> host.
>
> It looks like there's a worm affecting MS SQL Server which is
> pingflooding addresses at some random sequence.

yeah. i guess it's an old vulnerability, but i don't keep up on
this stuff.

however, i have disassembled the code inside; all it does is send
itself to pseudorandomly generated hosts.

there is an annotated disassembly at
http://www.boredom.org/~cstone/worm-annotated.txt

--cstone@pobox.com

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