wormable

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"It's a wormable bug if you have this installed," he said.

ARN News 2010
"It's a wormable bug if you have this installed," he said.

ARN News 2010
Don Leatham, senior director of solutions and strategy for Lumension, however, adds that the SMB vulnerabilities addressed by MS09-001 "are not wormable."

Netflash 2009
As for a worm, I could imagine a bug in Mail being wormable, as an exploit could mail itself to all the people who have sent you mail, etc.

Blog updates 2009
According to Kostya Kortchinsky, an Immunity researcher who worked on the CANVAS attack module, the SMB 2 vulnerability is "decently wormable."

Infoworld News 2009
"It is possible that this vulnerability could be used in the crafting of a wormable exploit."

E-Commerce Times 2009
"It is possible that this vulnerability could be used in the crafting of a wormable exploit."

LinuxInsider 2009
- Small app disables SMB, which has a flaw that's considered "decently wormable" in Windows Vista, Server 2008 and preview versions of Windows 7.

chron.com Chronicle 2009
It is possible that this vulnerability could be used in the crafting of a wormable exploit.

TechNet Blogs 2008
Because the vulnerability is potentially wormable on those older versions of Windows, we're encouraging customers to test and deploy the update as soon as possible.

TechNet Blogs 2008