On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:27:24AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Someday some bright cracker is going to figure out how to wrap a > > remote root exploit in an e-mail. Might as well be ready. > > It already happened 15 years ago. I was six and I remember hearing > about it.
Well, you should probably refresh your memory at this point. The Worm was not spread via email. It spread via a vulnerability in sendmail, yes (and alternately via a fingerd vulnerability), and it's not like it's the only sendmail vulnerability anybody's ever seen. It did not spread via any kind of client vulnerability like we see in Outlook. noah
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