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

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Message-ID: <4097031E.10009@brvenik.com>
From: security at brvenik.com (Jason)
Subject: Re: New LSASS-based worm finally here (Sasser)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote:

[...]

> 
> [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.
> 

It did not attack an OS directly but I believe the witty worm [1] holds 
the record to date. A 1 day window from advisory to release, it attacked 
and destroyed a security component that was supposed to protect against 
these issues...

[1] - http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/witty/