From: John Ives (jives_at_socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 10:07:12 PDT
There now appears to be an active exploit (as compared to the earlier DOS)
based upon the MS03-039 vulnerability.
This of course means a worm is probably imminent.
John
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:35:41 -0700
From: Joseph Lumia <jolumia_at_microsoft.com>
To: windows-hied_at_lists.Stanford.EDU
Subject: [SPAM:#] [windows-hied]: INFORMATION ONLY: MS03-039 exploit now
live
Greetings all,
We have now received reports that exploit code is now available for the
MS03-039 Critical Vulnerability released on 10 September. It is only a
matter of time before we see virus/worm activity attempting to exploit
this vulnerability. Please see the article
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/16/HNhackers_1.html
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/16/HNhackers_1.html>
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