Re: [Hampshire] Linux.Lion worm

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Author: Benjamin M. A'Lee
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Linux.Lion worm

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gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
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On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:29:29PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience of this? I have googled it and have found
> conflicting accounts of how real a threat it is. Also how recent!
>
> And would it be likely to jump from an external usb caddy to the HDD (if
> mounted)?
>

From <http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2001-032311-2042-99&tabid=2>:

Discovered: March 23, 2001

Apparently it was patched in Red Hat 7. I doubt it's still an issue.

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