[luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

[Matt Darnell]

Experts fear it could create a powerful platform to launch denial-of-service
attacks against virtually any target on the Internet.
Security vendors are warning users running Linux Apache Web servers that
they're vulnerable to attack from the first worm to use peer-to-peer
networking technology. Dubbed the Linux.Slapper.Worm, it exploits a buffer
overflow vulnerability within OpenSSL, often used in Apache Web servers.

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