Viruses in the wine-devel archive ??

[PETREOLLE Sylvain]

Someone on the list has the virus Sobig.f and sent it to wine-devel on Wed
Aug 20 2003 - 23:18:18 CDT

We MUST remove the infected message from the wine-devel archive.

Cordialement,

PETREOLLE Sylvain
#DMIT/DATO/OPS ([e-mail] )
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[Jeremy Newman]

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 00:42, PETREOLLE Sylvain wrote:
> Someone on the list has the virus Sobig.f and sent it to wine-devel on Wed
> Aug 20 2003 - 23:18:18 CDT
>
> We MUST remove the infected message from the wine-devel archive.

I'd be happy to remove it. On a quick scan however, I was not able to
find any infected messages in the archive.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Jeremy Newman"  wrote:
> > Someone on the list has the virus Sobig.f and sent it to wine-devel on Wed
> > Aug 20 2003 - 23:18:18 CDT
> >
> > We MUST remove the infected message from the wine-devel archive.
>
> I'd be happy to remove it. On a quick scan however, I was not able to
> find any infected messages in the archive.

They must be in the wine-patchces list. My ISP sent to me cured versions
of the infected messages. They were sent from the address from which
there were no list activity more than an year.

[Jeremy Newman]

Yup, here is the message.
http://winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2003/08/0203.html

I'll remove that attachment. Should we contact that author and let him
know he is infected, or simply remove him from the list?

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 09:32, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "Jeremy Newman"  wrote:
> > > Someone on the list has the virus Sobig.f and sent it to wine-devel on Wed
> > > Aug 20 2003 - 23:18:18 CDT
> > >
> > > We MUST remove the infected message from the wine-devel archive.
> >
> > I'd be happy to remove it. On a quick scan however, I was not able to
> > find any infected messages in the archive.
>
> They must be in the wine-patchces list. My ISP sent to me cured versions
> of the infected messages. They were sent from the address from which
> there were no list activity more than an year.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Jeremy Newman"  wrote:
> Yup, here is the message.
> http://winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2003/08/0203.html
>
> I'll remove that attachment. Should we contact that author and let him
> know he is infected, or simply remove him from the list?

Probably remove him from the list, then inform him and ask to subscribe
if he is still interested.

[David Laight]

> > Should we contact that author and let him
> > know he is infected, or simply remove him from the list?
>
> Probably remove him from the list, then inform him and ask to subscribe
> if he is still interested.

You need to be careful, the 'From:' in the mail is probably wrong,
so you need to check the IP address reported by the first (known) MTA.

I've been receiving a lot of bonce messages for this virus, and my
NetBSD system isn't compromised (I'm not actually running wine!)

David

[P. Christeas]

> Yup, here is the message.
> http://winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2003/08/0203.html
>
> I'll remove that attachment. Should we contact that author and let him
> know he is infected, or simply remove him from the list?

Btw. Does SoBig.F run under wine? If yes, how bad can it get?
> On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 09:32, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> > "Jeremy Newman"  wrote:
> > > > Someone on the list has the virus Sobig.f and sent it to wine-devel
> > > > on Wed Aug 20 2003 - 23:18:18 CDT
> > > >
> > > > We MUST remove the infected message from the wine-devel archive.
> > >
> > > I'd be happy to remove it. On a quick scan however, I was not able to
> > > find any infected messages in the archive.
> >
> > They must be in the wine-patchces list. My ISP sent to me cured versions
> > of the infected messages. They were sent from the address from which
> > there were no list activity more than an year.

[Marcus Meissner]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:13:39PM +0300, P. Christeas wrote:
> > Yup, here is the message.
> > http://winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2003/08/0203.html
> >
> > I'll remove that attachment. Should we contact that author and let him
> > know he is infected, or simply remove him from the list?
>
> Btw. Does SoBig.F run under wine? If yes, how bad can it get?

It crashes for me.

Ciao, Marcus

[Sylvain Petreolle]

LOL. When will we see a virus writer complain on the list that his
virus doesnt work under Wine ?:)
> > Btw. Does SoBig.F run under wine? If yes, how bad can it get?
>
> It crashes for me.
>
> Ciao, Marcus

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[P. Christeas]

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:13:39PM +0300, P. Christeas wrote:
> > > Yup, here is the message.
> > > http://winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2003/08/0203.html
> > >
> > > I'll remove that attachment. Should we contact that author and let him
> > > know he is infected, or simply remove him from the list?
> >
> > Btw. Does SoBig.F run under wine? If yes, how bad can it get?
>
> It crashes for me.
>
> Ciao, Marcus

OK, we 'll fix wine .. ;)

On the serious side: wine could actually be the perfect platform for security 
tests. Having a virus spread on a pseydo-system is noteworthy..

[Shachar Shemesh]

P. Christeas wrote:
> Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:13:39PM +0300, P. Christeas wrote:
> > > > Yup, here is the message.
> > > > http://winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2003/08/0203.html
> > > >
> > > > I'll remove that attachment. Should we contact that author and let him
> > > > know he is infected, or simply remove him from the list?
> > >
> > > Btw. Does SoBig.F run under wine? If yes, how bad can it get?
> >
> > It crashes for me.
> >
> > Ciao, Marcus
>
> OK, we 'll fix wine .. ;)
>
> On the serious side: wine could actually be the perfect platform for security 
> tests. Having a virus spread on a pseydo-system is noteworthy..

We've been through this discussion before too. Wine is not a VM, and the 
isolation between Win32 and Unix code is the result of application's 
ignorance, rather than a deliberate design decision. As such, it is 
highly NOT recommended for cases where hostile code of unknown qualities 
is tested.

For all you know, sobig may be checking whether it is runnning on wine, 
and then issuing the correct interrupts (static linking dlopen) and 
infecting your Unix system.

Shachar

[Sylvain Petreolle]

*oops* They were on wine-patches. Thanks for removal.

About that author, he isnt probably the sender, since Sobig.f spoofs
the FROM field,using its own smtp engine.
See Sophos alert for more info :
http://www.us.sophos.com/support/disinfection/sobigf.html

--- Jeremy Newman  a écrit :
> Yup, here is the message.
> http://winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2003/08/0203.html
>
> I'll remove that attachment. Should we contact that author and let

him
> know he is infected, or simply remove him from the list?

=====
Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle_at_users_dot_sourceforge_dot_net) 
ICQ #170597259

alias upsf='false ; while [ $? -ne 0 ] ; do cvs update -APd ; done 2>&1 |tee cvslog'

"What if tomorrow the War could be over ?" Morpheus, in "Reloaded".

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[Duane Clark]

Jeremy Newman wrote:
> Yup, here is the message.
> http://winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2003/08/0203.html
>
> I'll remove that attachment. Should we contact that author and let him
> know he is infected, or simply remove him from the list?

Please don't remove anyone from the lists. The "From" is always forged, 
so you should ignore it. The Wine lists are currently getting about 1000 
Sobig.F viruses per day, some of them supposedly from Alexandre ;)

I have temporarily changed the maximum message size on wine-patches to 
40KB. So any emails with valid forged "From" headers will be caught for 
moderation. Since all the other lists were already set at 40KB by 
default, no viruses were able to make it through.