Re: Fwd: The witty worm

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On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 19:34, SBlaze wrote:
>
> Got this in...thought I would forward it on to the nerfilter list in the
> interest of security.

Although if your not patched yet your hard drive is probably already
trashed. :(

> It exploits ICQ apparently... "Witty uses a vulnerability in ICQ instant
> messaging protocol parsing routines of the ISS Protocol Analysis Module (PAM)."

Actually, its BlackICE that has the problem, not ICQ. If you have
BlackICE but not ICQ you can still get hosed. 

HTH,
C




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