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Re: [LUG] Corrupt entries in Apache access log



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On Thursday 25 March 2004 12:15, David Johnson wrote:
<snip lots of escaped hex garbage>
<div class=\"serendipity_comment\">\n            <a id=\"c13\"></a>\n            
<br />\n\n            <div class=\"serendipity_comment_source\">\n                
<a href=\"#c13\" title=\"Link to comment #3\">#3</a> \n<a 
href=\"mailto:dj[at]david-web.co.uk\";  title=\"Send a mail to David Johnson 


Someone is trying to test for a vulnerability in your web server / common 
scripts. It can come from a test FormMail.pl query or some other target.

http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/pipermail/linux-users/2003-November/023423.html
Somewhere in that very large snip, you should have found something like:
/bin/sh or command.exe or something.  This is typical of a buffer
overflow exploit.



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