full-disclosure - Re: New LSASS-based worm finally here (Sasser)

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Message-ID: <20040503181124.18992.qmail@mail.datacolo.com>
From: jfernandez at germinus.com (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino)
Subject: Re: New LSASS-based worm finally here (Sasser)

Ben Ryan wrote:

> As expected, LSASS exploit-based worm seems to have arrived. Fasten your
> seatbelts, those unpatched please use the spew bags provided :)
> I hope PSS resolves the issues discussed in KB835732.

What's more disturbing is that this worm has established a new record 
for Microsoft worms [1]. Blaster was the fastest worm (25 days since 
the patch was published to the worm), this one has been even faster 
(17 days for the first variant since the patch was published to the 
worm). Of course, I'm not considering the fact that this issue was 
known, at least to eEye and Microsoft, for over 5 months.

Regards

Javier

[1] Approaching the record of worms in other OS, which, I believe, is 
held by Scalper (10 days from patch to worm). But hey, they could 
browse the source changes for that one.