Re: Increased activity on UDP/1434

From: Otto Dandenell (bugtraq@fetaste.com)
Date: 01/25/03

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    From: "Otto Dandenell" <bugtraq@fetaste.com>
    To: <incidents@securityfocus.com>
    Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:36:29 +0100
    
    

    Dmitri Smirnov wrote:

    > Having a big number of connections on UDP/1434 from a random
    > IPs in Internet on a different networks. One hour ago (22:00
    > PST) one server in colo space started to initiate a hundreds
    > of connection per second to diff. hosts on Internet to port
    > UDP/1434 (isolated). New worms? DDoS? Is anyone experience the same?

    New DDos Worm attacking MSSQL servers through well known buffer overflow
    vulnerabilities.

    Read the Bugtraq thread "MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT
    1434!".

    Make sure your MSSSQL 2000 server is patched with SQL Server Service
    Pack 3.

    Some links:
    http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/370308
    http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/399260
    http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/484891
    Some news: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2099780,00.html
    Advisory: http://www.nextgenss.com/advisories/mssql-udp.txt
    Microsoft Fix:
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/secur
    ity/bulletin/MS02-039.asp

    From one of the Bugtraq postings:

    "Some random screen shots, a copy of the worm as a perl script, and a
    disassembly (sorry, no comments) can be found online at:

    http://www.digitaloffense.net/worms/mssql_udp_worm/ "

    Regards

    / Otto Dandenell

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