[PLUG] Apache Versions and the Slapper Wyrm

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Thu Jun 10 13:53:01 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 09:02, Bill Thoen wrote:
> I'm rebuilding a lightning-fried Linux server and installing Red
> Hat ver 7.3, and as I was loading it, I remembered that the
> Slapper worm was a threat to the earlier versions of Apache (I
> think Slapper appeared sometime in Sep 2002.) 
> 
> Does anyone know if Apache ver 1.3.23-11 is immune to this
> threat, or will I need to upgrade my version of Apache?

I can't speak from memory about the precise version, but if you're using
the latest security update, you're fine.   And actually it's mod_ssl
that you need to be concerned about, not Apache.

Wil
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