Internet worm squirms into Linux servers
Both flaws appear in other distributions of Linux, including SuSE, Mandrake and Caldera. But because the worm limits itself to Red Hat servers, those distributions are not affected. Patches for both flaws have been readily available for more than six months.
The worm attempts to compromise Red Hat 7.0 systems by swamping the error logging function of the server's printer service with data. Known as a buffer overflow, or overrun, such exploits are commonly used in scripts designed by system crackers.
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