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Date:      Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:53:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        Henk Wevers <henk@wevers.org>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: OpenSSL worm]
Message-ID:  <20020913195259.W91245-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020913180504.GA3065@blossom.cjclark.org>

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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 07:55:09PM +0200, Henk Wevers wrote:
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: OpenSSL worm
> > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:22:49 -0600 (MDT)
> > From: Hal Flynn <flynn@securityfocus.com>
> > To: focus-bsd@securityfocus.com
> >
> > For those of you not aware, there has been a report of an OpenSSL worm in
> > the wild.  Discussion is on Bugtraq currently.
> >
>
> Uhh... Did you look at the mail first? It's a Linux-only worm. (Not
> that you shouldn't have upgraded your OpenSSL long ago.) This is also
> not the right list.
>
> Hal also cross posted that to the focus-sun@securityfocus.com
> list. Not sure what he's thinking unless he knows more.

There was a mention that the worm does have some platform-detection
capabilites, but there hasn't been any updates since securityfocus has
been down and so bugtraq has been silent all day.

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