[THIN] Internet Worm/Lovsan.A

  • From: "Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net" <jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:09:46 -0400

And more on this...

And if the last one wasn't enough.
JK

VIRUS WARNING The Central Command® Emergency Virus Response Team? (EVRT?)
has received virus infection reports for the new Internet Worm/Lovsan.A
. Due to increased customer inquires and infection reports the EVRT is
issuing a VIRUS WARNING.

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[ EVRT? Virus Warning issued for Worm/Lovsan.A ]

Name: Worm/Lovsan.A
Alias: W32/Lovsan.A
Type: Internet Worm
Discovered: August 11, 2003
Platform: Windows NT/2000/XP
Size: 6.176KB


Worm/Lovsan.A is an Internet worm that exploits a known security
vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows Distributed Companent Object Model
(DCOM) Remote Procedure Call (RPC) interface. This security breach allows
someone with malicious intent to run code of their choice. TCP port directly
affected by this exploit include: 135.

If executed, Worm/Lovsan.A will download and run the file msblast.exe using
Tftp

The following are components of Worm/Lovsan.A:

- msblast.exe (the main component)

So that it gets run each time a user restart their computer the following
registry key gets added:

- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
"windows auto update"="msblast.exe"

Microsoft has issued a patch to protect against the exploit used by
Worm/Lovsan.A. This patch is available from Microsoft Security Bulletin
MS03-026
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/
bulletin/MS03-026.asp

** This worm is still under analysis

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