Re: Two birds with one worm.

From: Hugo van der Kooij (hvdkooijat_private)
Date: Thu Jul 19 2001 - 14:43:50 PDT

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On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Mike Lewinski wrote:

> > It looks like the "Code Red" worm has the added side effect of
> crashing
> > Cisco (675/678) DSL CPEs running any CBOS prior to 2.4.1. The GET it
> sends
> > looking for IIS servers hardlocks any modem with the web management
> > interface enabled.
>
> FYI.... I believe we're seeing secondary effects on other higher-end
> Cisco's (i.e. 7500's)

This may be partly to blame on the number of vunerable systems and the
load they cause. Seems we get a lot of birds this way.

Hugo.

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