The Sadmind worm was a
computer worm
A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. It often uses a computer network to spread itself, relying on security failures on the target computer to access it. It wi ...
which exploited vulnerabilities in both
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, ...
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SolarisSecurity Bulletin 00191 and
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation, multinational technology company, technology corporation producing Software, computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at th ...
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Internet Information Services
Internet Information Services (IIS-pronounced 2S, formerly Internet Information Server) is an extensible web server software created by Microsoft for use with the Windows NT family. IIS supports HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP and N ...
MS00-078, for which a patch had been made available seven months earlier. It was discovered on
May 8, 2001.
fuck USA Government
fuck PoizonBOx
contact:@yahoo.com.cn
Message displayed on sites altered by Sadmind worm.
The worm defaced web servers with a message against the
United States
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government and the anti-Chinese cracking group PoizonBOx.
Systems affected by version
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation, multinational technology company, technology corporation producing Software, computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at th ...
(
IIS):
* Version 4.0
* Version 5.0
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, ...
(
Solaris):
* Version 2.3
* Version 2.4
See also
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Timeline of computer viruses and worms
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Timelines can use any suitable scale represent ...
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Comparison of computer viruses
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Computer viruses
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References
External links
CERT Advisory CA-2001-11CERT Vulnerability Note VU#28934
Symantec Rates Sadmind/IIS Worm a One In Severity - Risk Impact of Security Vulnerability Resulting From Worm Exploit Rated as High
Exploit-based worms
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