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

From: Mike Tindor (mtindorat_private)
Date: Sat Jan 25 2003 - 02:43:59 PST

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    Michael,
    
    I feel your pain.  I've seen the same thing starting at 12:46 AM EST 01-25-
    2003 at one of our colocation facilities.
    
    I haven't had time to analyze things as of yet - I discovered three 
    machines, all with activity that started at this same time, all running 
    windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000.
    
    It crippled internal connectivity - basically, any machine that actively 
    had this going on, if we would plug it into a port on an HP4000 switch it 
    would freeze the switch instantly and then anything on the local network 
    would suffer.
    
    I'm working on isolating these machines to a local segment and then 
    putting them back online so that I may see what type of traffic is 
    generated or received at brief intervals.
    
    I don't know what it is, but it's certainly detrimental to network 
    performance!
    
    Mike Tindor
    FIRST Internet
    
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    >From: Michael Bacarella <mbacat_private>
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    >Subject: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!
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    >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.
    >
    >02:06:31.017088 150.140.142.17.3047 > 24.193.37.212.ms-sql-m:  udp 376
    >02:06:31.017244 24.193.37.212 > 150.140.142.17: icmp: 24.193.37.212 udp 
    port ms-sql-m unreachable [tos 0xc0
    >
    >It looks like there's a worm affecting MS SQL Server which is
    >pingflooding addresses at some random sequence.
    >
    >All admins with access to routers should block port 1434 (ms-sql-m)!
    >
    >Everyone running MS SQL Server shut it the hell down or make
    >sure it can't access the internet proper!
    >
    >I make no guarantees that this information is correct, test it
    >out for yourself!
    >
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