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Linux Worm Is Spreading Rapidly (TechWeb)

Posted Sep 17, 2002 19:18 UTC (Tue) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094)
Parent article: Linux Worm Is Spreading Rapidly (TechWeb)

One comment that is worth making - is that versions of openssl patched by many vendors (red hat in particular) are still openssl 0.9.6b but the patches have been backported. So some of those "vulnerable" systems might be correctly patched from their distro vendor.

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Posted Sep 18, 2002 15:07 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

My understanding of the article is that "affected" actually means "infected". But indeed, the article is unclear about that. In any case, the article clearly states that there are 1,600 infected .net hosts and 1,300 infected .com hosts.