Re: looking for Slammer infectee access link speeds

From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Sun May 02 2004 - 11:31:10 EDT


[resending from my NANOG-posting address, sigh]

> I think a more interesting aspect of this particular worm is that it
> only takes a single packet to infect a vulnerable host. As far as I
> know no other worm can do this.

That was true prior to the March "Witty" worm.

> The effect is that even packets to
> broadcast or multicast address have the potential to infect.

It depends on the specifics of the server being exploited. (In Witty's
case, it was passive infection!)

> I can tell you some stuff about AS12854.

Thanks!, I'll send you the list off-list.

                Vern








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