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Worm puts old IIS attack in full-auto mode

posted onMay 9, 2001
by hitbsecnews

British TV news outfit ITN was the first major site we know of to be infiltrated by the sadmind/IIS worm, a new take on a past theme which automates attacks on Solaris and Microsoft IIS boxes, using two very old exploits.

The worm first infects systems running Solaris through version 7, exploiting the two-year-old sadmind buffer overflow vulnerability which gives up root access.

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