Re: Linux Worm (fwd)

[Dax Kelson]

Gerhard Mack said once upon a time (Fri, 23 Mar 2001):

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Bob Lorenzini wrote:
>
> > I'm annoyed when persons post virus alerts to unrelated lists but this
> > is a serious threat. If your offended flame away.
>
> This should be a wake up call... distributions need to stop using product
> with consistently bad security records.

This TSIG bug in BIND 8 that is being exploited was added to BIND 8 by the
same team who wrote BIND 9.

In fact the last two major remote root compromises (TSIG and NXT) for BIND
8 was in code added to BIND 8 by the BIND 9 developers.

Dax