On September 22, 2001 11:31 pm, Tim Wunder wrote:
> Previously, Joel Hammer chose to write:
> > I thought from all I had read about JavaScript that it was designed to be
> > safe.
> > I recall on another list someone said he had downloaded a malicious html
> > doc and others on the list claimed that was impossible. This was a long
> > time ago, like 8 months.
> > Anyway, the following update is rather alarming:
> > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-26.html
> > Even linux boxes are getting infected from their windows clients if they
> > run samba. There was a fix posted on the samba mailing list.
> > Joel
>
> Hi Joel,
> I didn't see anything in the advisory pertaining to Samba, was that
> something you just got from the samba list?
>
The worm will also propagate through network shares. It isn't going to
activate and infect a Linux client, but a linux client could 'share' it to
other Windows boxes on the same network if they are unlucky enough to pull
across that file.
--
burns
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