How does the Sasser Worm Relate to LSASS?
The Sasser Worm was an electronic worm that was specifically created to take advantage of a design vulnerability in versions of LSASS that were found in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Essentially, the worm would make use of LSASS to create what is known as a buffer overflow. This overflow would make it possible for the worm to use the system resources to spread to other machines on the network. Unlike many other worms, the Sasser worm was not spread by email. But once it would infect a particular computer, it could quickly spread to any other computers that were connected to the same network.
