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.

[This has been fixed in PHP for months. -Ed.]

vnunet