New worm / port 1434?

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Sat Jan 25 08:50:05 UTC 2003


At 02:45 AM 1/25/2003 -0600, Jack Bates wrote:
>From: "Mike Tancsa"
>
> >
> >
> > Yes, I am seeing this big time.  Are you sure its SQL server ?  Thats
> > normally 1433 no ?  Are there any other details somewhere about this ?
> >
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>All MS SQL servers listen to 1434 reguardless of the other ports they listen
>on. Depending on configuration depends on what other ports it uses (due to
>various security models), but 1434 is a constant in all configurations
>according to a quick search and a read on the last MS SQL vulnerability
>found in 7/2002.

Thanks, I have blocked the infected hosts in my customer colo space.  Its 
an eye opener how much traffic they generate on the local collision domain 
they are on :-(

         ---Mike
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