looking for Slammer infectee access link speeds
vern at ee.lbl.gov
vern at ee.lbl.gov
Sun May 2 15:31:10 UTC 2004
[resending from my NANOG-posting address, sigh]
> I think a more interesting aspect of this particular worm is that it
> only takes a single packet to infect a vulnerable host. As far as I
> know no other worm can do this.
That was true prior to the March "Witty" worm.
> The effect is that even packets to
> broadcast or multicast address have the potential to infect.
It depends on the specifics of the server being exploited. (In Witty's
case, it was passive infection!)
> I can tell you some stuff about AS12854.
Thanks!, I'll send you the list off-list.
Vern
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