Re: Really awful TV news report on virus (from 1988)

[Les Bell <lesbell () lesbell com au>]

On 11/06/2012 5:42 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I'm not sure this is Morris - the report stated it spread by disk and
> telephone (1:49). Morris abused a named or fingerd overflow, if I
> recall correctly.

A non-standard debug command in sendmail, and a buffer overflow in
fingerd. See RFC 1135 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1135.txt), which will
give you an excuse to drop the amazing word "helminthiasis" into
conversation.

Best,

--- Les Bell
[+61 2 9451 1144]
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]

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