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Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay D. Dyson)
Sat Jan 25 09:12:22 2003
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 03:35:55 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@treachery.net>
To: Bugtraq <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
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On 25 Jan 2003, Umit Tiric wrote:
> We can confirm it here in Toronto, Canada. Even though the effect was
> minimal to us, we saw many major networks dissappear on the Internet.
We're seeing large network disruption here in Los Angeles. Right
now, packet loss is running at roughly 95%. (This is not a typo. I do
mean *ninety-five percent* packet loss.)
> You have to patch your MS-SQL Server to the highest service pack.
More details available here:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/370308
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/399260
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/484891
And to think...up until tonight, I thought the vulnerabilities
that paved the way for Nimda were the worst that Microsoft could do to the
net.community. They've really topped themselves this time.
- -Jay
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