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

From: Patrick Finch (patat_private)
Date: Sat Jan 25 2003 - 02:09:23 PST

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    I'm seeing the same thing...
    Apparently it's spreading around quite nicely :(
    
    Looks like one of our workstations got hit at around 21:30 Pacific
    
    Patrick Finch
    
    At 02:11 AM 1/25/2003 -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.
    >
    >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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