The Sadmind worm was a computer worm which exploited vulnerabilities in both Sun Microsystems' Solaris (Security Bulletin 00191, CVE-1999-0977) and Microsoft's Internet Information Services (MS00-078, CVE-2000-0884), for which a patch had been made available seven months earlier. It was discovered on May 8, 2001.
Specifically, the virus affected the sadmind daemon on Solaris systems which had sadmind enabled in inetd.conf, since the sadmind daemon normally ran with root privileges.
fuck USA Governmentfuck PoizonBOxcontact:@yahoo.com.cn Message displayed on sites altered by Sadmind worm. The worm defaced web servers with a message against the United States government"Unix/SadMind - Worm - Sophos threat analysis ". Accessed January 13, 2008. and the anti-Chinese cracking group PoizonBOx.Raiu, Costin. "One Sad Mind ". Accessed January 13, 2008.
Systems affected by version Microsoft (IIS): Version 4.0 Version 5.0 Sun Microsystems (Solaris): Version 2.3 Version 2.4
See also Timeline of computer viruses and worms Computer viruses
References
External links CERT Advisory CA-2001-11 CERT Vulnerability Note VU#28934 Symantec Rates Sadmind/IIS Worm a One In Severity - Risk Impact of Security Vulnerability Resulting From Worm Exploit Rated as High Solaris Worm Attacks IIS Servers