Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:49:29 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@hellug.gr> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Phil Schulz <ph.schulz@gmx.de>, Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind) Message-ID: <20040706094929.GA7329@igloo.linux.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040706094303.GA9617@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040705162320.11141.qmail@web51604.mail.yahoo.com> <40E99786.5000005@gmx.de> <20040705210817.GB4560@gothmog.gr> <20040706094303.GA9617@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2004-07-06 10:43, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > > In short, I've heard of no viruses that affect BSDs during the last 7-8 > > years that I'm using a BSD Unix at home and work. > > The only malware that ever achieved any sort of world prominence was > the Scalper worm, which exploited the "chunked transfer encoding" > vulnerability in versions of Apache earlier than 1.3.24 or 2.0.36 on > i386 FreeBSD: > > http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE+CAN-2002-0392 > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/freebsd.scalper.worm.html Ah, very informative. Thanks. I had missed this one :) > As I remember there were only a few hundred infections, and an Apache > patch was available within hours. Hardly the sort of Internet > destroying scale we've become accustomed to with all those Windows > worms recently. Thankfully, no :)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040706094929.GA7329>