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Linux worm turns on Mambo and PHP

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Hey Mambo and PHP users, you might want to make yourself aware of the security alert going around with regard to a nasty Linux worm working its way through certain systems.

Security experts today warned of a Linux network worm that exploits holes in the Mambo content management system and the PHP XML-RPC library.

Dubbed Mare.D, the worm leaves multiple backdoors on infected systems. Two of these are connectback shell backdoors that link to a remote host, while a third allows the malware’s writer to access and control infected systems via IRC. [Read the rest]

[tags]php,linux worm,mambo,security alert[/tags]

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