[lug] possible intrusion

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:34:44PM -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
>This makes it look like the "Code Red" worm is a dual purpose worm, by
>accident. Someone could crash a Cisco DSL router just by trying the

Imagine that Code Red just walks through a /24 block.  If your router is at
.1, you may not get hig with Code Red because it takes down the router
before it can check the rest of the net...  The author of the worm probably
didn't really want THAT to happen.

Sean
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