Slapper network worm

[Brandon Vincent]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Rusty Shakelford <R.Shakelford at gmx.com> wrote:
> Is that something that a home computer user running Linux should worry about? Or is that something unrelated to the Linux operating system?

The Slapper worm impacted Linux web servers running Apache. The worm
was able to propagate due to a security issue in OpenSSL version
0.9.6d and older.

The issue was solved almost immediately back in 2002 with the patching
and subsequent release of OpenSSL version 0.9.6e. There is no risk of
the Slapper worm to any modern version of Linux and OpenSSL.

Brandon Vincent