From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 06:55:21 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1811020653350.78183@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
The infamous Morris Worm was released in 1988; making use of known
vulnerabilities in Sendmail/finger/RSH (and weak passwords), it took out a
metric shitload of SUN-3s and 4BSD Vaxen (the author claimed that it was
accidental, but the idiot hadn't tested it on an isolated network first). A
temporary "condom" was discovered by Rich Kulawiec with "mkdir /tmp/sh".
Another fix was to move the C compiler elsewhere.
-- Dave
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