Re: A heads up on new worm affecting previous versions of RealVNC

2007-01-14 Thread Mick
On Saturday 13 January 2007 16:39, Mike Miller wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, William Hooper wrote: > >> What do we know about which VNC versions are vulnerable? > > > > Check it out using the CVE number: > > > > http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-2369 > > > > This references the bug in ve

Re: A heads up on new worm affecting previous versions of RealVNC

2007-01-13 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, William Hooper wrote: What do we know about which VNC versions are vulnerable? Check it out using the CVE number: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-2369 This references the bug in version 4.1.1. Thanks! That's what I thought. This note from Red Hat is fun

Re: A heads up on new worm affecting previous versions of RealVNC

2007-01-12 Thread William Hooper
Mike Miller wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Diana Hargus wrote: > > >> Just had to clean up this new worm from an infected pc. Apparently the >> vector was through an um-updated VNC on a friend's pc. Just another >> reason to update and patch. >> >> http://www.us.sophos.com/security/analyses/w32rb

Re: A heads up on new worm affecting previous versions of RealVNC

2007-01-12 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Diana Hargus wrote: Just had to clean up this new worm from an infected pc. Apparently the vector was through an um-updated VNC on a friend's pc. Just another reason to update and patch. http://www.us.sophos.com/security/analyses/w32rbotgai.html From the writeup on the

A heads up on new worm affecting previous versions of RealVNC

2007-01-12 Thread Diana Hargus
Hiyas, Just had to clean up this new worm from an infected pc. Apparently the vector was through an um-updated VNC on a friend's pc. Just another reason to update and patch. http://www.us.sophos.com/security/analyses/w32rbotgai.html From the writeup on the worm at Sophos: W32/Rbot-GAI s