LWN: Comments on "Linux Worm Is Spreading Rapidly (TechWeb)"

Linux Worm Is Spreading Rapidly (TechWeb)

pflugstad — 2002-09-18T15:32:02+00:00

Use their FTP site: ftp.openssl.org. It's responding just fine.

Linux Worm Is Spreading Rapidly (TechWeb)

proski — 2002-09-18T15:07:59+00:00

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.

Linux Worm Is Spreading Rapidly (TechWeb)

penguinista — 2002-09-18T12:52:25+00:00

openssl.org appears to be down or overwhelmed. It might be helpful for download sites to start mirroring the required updates. So far I havent been able to find the most recent versions elsewhere. Download.com and Tucows have older versions of openssl and I dont see it on Sourceforge, etc... This is a bad thing.

Linux Worm Is Spreading Rapidly (TechWeb)

skvidal — 2002-09-17T19:18:10+00:00

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.