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From: jac@doc.ic.ac.uk (Jim Crammond)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,mail.uk-sendmail-workers
Subject: sendmail worm
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Date: 7 Nov 88 10:47:30 GMT
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You may have heard of a virus that has attacked arpanet over the weekend.

I believe this is in fact a "worm" that exploits a hole in bsd4.3 related
sendmail which has been compiled with the debug option.

For details I suggest you read the RISKS digest V7 Issues 69 and 70.

A note for Sun users: the standard sendmail binary is not compiled with
the debug code and therefore is safe from this attack.

-Jim.