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“Security experts are rushing to decode a worm program that
exploits a 2-week-old flaw to infect computers running vulnerable
versions of the popular open-source Apache Web server
application.“The worm is thought to be capable of spreading only to Web
servers running the FreeBSD operating system, an open-source
variant of Unix, that haven’t had a patch applied for the recent
flaw. Although few people have reported the worm, it is thought to
be infecting vulnerable Web servers worldwide…“At present, if the Apache worm tries to spread to any
non-FreeBSD system, it will likely crash the session on the server
to which the worm had connected. That’s not so bad, said [eEye
Digital Security’s chief hacking officer Marc] Maiffret, but it
could cause many servers to crash if the worm develops into an
epidemic…”
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