full-disclosure - Is Sapphire the world's smallest computer worm?

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Message-ID: <xnn0lpndk5.fsf@forced.attrition.org>
From: munge at attrition.org (Small Grey)
Subject: Is Sapphire the world's smallest computer
 worm?

>>>>> "rs" == Richard M Smith <rms@...puterbytesman.com> writes:

    rs> At 376 bytes, is this new Sapphire worm the world's smallest
    rs> computer worm?  The only competition I can think of is the
    rs> Morse worm.  Anybody know how big it was?

    The Morris worm was bigger:

,----[ worm-src.tar.gz ]
| -rw-------    1 munge    munge       13045 Jun  5  1991 cracksome.c
| -rw-------    1 munge    munge       32248 Jun  5  1991 hs.c
| -rw-------    1 munge    munge         494 Jun  5  1991 makefile
| -rw-------    1 munge    munge        2470 Jun  5  1991 net.c
| -rw-------    1 munge    munge         647 Jun  5  1991 stubs.c
| -rw-------    1 munge    munge        3511 Jun  5  1991 worm.c
| -rw-------    1 munge    munge        1388 Jun  5  1991 worm.h
| -rw-------    1 munge    munge       28545 Feb  1  1992 wormdes.c
| -rw-------    1 munge    munge        1550 Jun  5  1991 x8113550.c
`----

    Check Spafford's analysis and source code at:

    <ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/doc/morris_worm/>

    cheers,

    Matt

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