2001 CERT Incident Notes

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This document details 15 CERT incident notes published in 2001.
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Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

In 2001, CERT published 15 incident notes:

  • IN-2001-01: Widespread Compromises via "ramen" Toolkit
  • IN-2001-02: Open mail relays used to deliver "Hybris Worm"
  • IN-2001-03: Exploitation of BIND Vulnerabilities
  • IN-2001-04: "Carko" Distributed Denial-of-Service Tool
  • IN-2001-05: The "cheese" Worm IN-2001-06: Verification of Downloaded Software
  • IN-2001-07: W32/Leaves: Exploitation of previously installed SubSeven Trojan Horses
  • IN-2001-08: "Code Red" Worm Exploiting Buffer Overflow In IIS Indexing Service DLL
  • IN-2001-09: "Code Red II:" Another Worm Exploiting Buffer Overflow in IIS Indexing Service DLL
  • IN-2001-10: "Code Red" Worm Crashes IIS 4.0 Servers with URL Redirection Enabled
  • IN-2001-11: Cache Corruption on Microsoft DNS Servers
  • IN-2001-12: Exploitation of vulnerability in SSH1 CRC-32 compensation attack detector
  • IN-2001-13: "Kaiten" Malicious Code Installed by Exploiting Null Default Passwords in MS-SQL 38
  • IN-2001-14: W32/BadTrans Worm
  • IN-2001-15: W32/Goner Worm

CERT incident notes are now a core component of US-CERT's Technical Cyber Security Alerts and Current Activity. We provide these incident notes, published by year, for historical purposes.

Part of a Collection

CERT Annual Reports 1994-2010

Cite This SEI Report

Software Engineering Institute (2001, December 31). 2001 CERT Incident Notes. Retrieved August 19, 2026, from https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/2001-cert-incident-notes/.

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author={Software Engineering Institute},
title={2001 CERT Incident Notes},
month={Dec},
year={2001},
institution={Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University},
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Software Engineering Institute. "2001 CERT Incident Notes." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, December 31, 2001. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/2001-cert-incident-notes/.

Software Engineering Institute, "2001 CERT Incident Notes," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, 31-Dec-2001 [Online]. Available: https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/2001-cert-incident-notes/. [Accessed: 19-Aug-2026].

Software Engineering Institute. "2001 CERT Incident Notes." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, 31 Dec. 2001. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/2001-cert-incident-notes/. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

Software Engineering Institute. 2001 CERT Incident Notes. Software Engineering Institute. 2001. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/2001-cert-incident-notes/