Re: CERT Advisory - wuarchive ftpd Trojan Horse

Alastair Young (alastair@cadence.com)
Wed, 6 Apr 1994 12:28:17 -0800

At  1:56 PM 4/6/94 -0400, Christopher Klaus wrote:
>> 
>Yikes.  Here is something you might want to take fast action against.
>
>I wish CERT would have posted more details though.
>like how the trojan worked or where it was or what sites
>contained copy of it.  how do i know the newest version
>2.3 has no already been modified?
>

Check your source for the string '"NULL"' ie the word NULL in double quotes.

We have an older version (2.1a) which appears to be clean.

Al

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