Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:26:16 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <dmiller@sparks.net> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD.Scalper.Worm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207021225080.81781-100000@search.sparks.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0206302244150.42445-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Andy Farkas wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > One of the people sending mail to -docs, pointed me to > > > > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/freebsd.scalper.worm.html > > > > It looks like more exposure needs to be provided via the web site and etc. > > > > Kent > > > > -- > > Kent Stewart > > Richland, WA > > > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > > > > Looks like this worm can be stopped by having /tmp mounted noexec. Probably not a very good solution since it could be overcome with a trivial change to the worm. The better fix is to plug the hole:) --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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