Re: New Linux Trojan

From: Brett Glass (brett@lariat.org)
Date: 09/06/01 

Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010906100052.048d0970@localhost>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 10:03:26 -0600
To: Qualys Inc <research@qualys.com>, <incidents@securityfocus.com>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: New Linux Trojan

If what Qualys says is true, this is a Trojan horse/virus/worm. However,
I'd hardly believe that such a thing could propagate very far or very
well, given that the attachment would have to be opened -- intentionally
-- by a user with root privilege to infect the system. And Linux users
tend to be much more suspicious of binary attachments than Windows users.
Is this a real threat or a PR stunt?

--Brett Glass

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