'Turkey' Worm Targets Solaris
A new worm targeting a flaw in Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris 10 OS delivers crude artsy payloads, including a drawing of a turkey in ASCII text. The use of an ASCII drawing by a hacker is "a bit old school," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos PLC.
The worm-- called
Unix/Froot-A or Wanuk-- takes advantage of a zero-day flaw that was patched by Sun three days after exploit code was published last month.
The vulnerability lies within the Telnet daemon, a process that runs in the background and waits for another Telnet client to connect, which can allow a hacker to log in without a password. An attacker could eventually gain complete control over the machine.
