Vulnerability Development: Re: weird Windows 2000/XP bug

["Chris Carey" <chris () sublimespot com>]

Nimda and CodeRed created huge security holes on the infected machines. This
is far worse a payload than having a server reboot.

Crashing a server is silly. If you propogated n times then crashed the
server, you would lose the exponential spreading effect. Right?

-Chris


> What if something like this would be used in a worm like Nimda or CodeRed,
> would it crash all the infected servers? Bet that'd really call the
admin's
> attention. Though it'd make the propagation a little difficult...