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Re: vulnerable to apache/ssl worm ?



On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 17:49, vinai wrote:
> 
> Are we (on the PPC) vulnerable to the worm that's started making its
> rounds last week - the one that exploits an opening in the apache ssl
> module ?  I thought I read somewhere that it might be x86 only, but I
> can't be absolutely sure about that.  But I do remember the articles
> saying the worm affects multiple linux distributions ...

Even if the worm in question only runs on i386, a security hole is a
security hole. It can be exploited on powerpc as well.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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