Bugtraq: Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!

[cstone <cstone () pobox com>]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:11:41AM -0500, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> I'm getting massive packet loss to various points on the globe.
> I am seeing a lot of these in my tcpdump output on each
> host.
>
> It looks like there's a worm affecting MS SQL Server which is
> pingflooding addresses at some random sequence.
yeah.  i guess it's an old vulnerability, but i don't keep up on
this stuff.

however, i have disassembled the code inside; all it does is send
itself to pseudorandomly generated hosts.

there is an annotated disassembly at 
http://www.boredom.org/~cstone/worm-annotated.txt

--cstone () pobox com