Question about codered worm

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Fri Aug 17 08:00:46 EST 2001


Mark Purcell wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:34:16AM +1000, Drake Diedrich wrote:
> >   Alternatively, there's the Vigilante project:
> > http://www.dynwebdev.com/codered/ I have to admit being tempted, but I'm not
> > running Java just to do this, and who can be bothered going to court to save
> > the Internet.
> 
> What about adding something like this to your Apache config:
> 
> # Redirect allows you to tell clients about documents which used to exist in
> # Format: Redirect fakename url
> RedirectMatch /default.ida* http://www.dasbistro.com/default.ida
> 
> Mark

Just remember that CodeRed doens't follow redirects, it just sets up a
connection and shoves the expoit down the pipe.  If it was intelligent
enough to do that it would also check the server banner first...

Andrew Bartlett

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