Security Incidents: Re: Apache 1.3.XX

[Russell Fulton <R.FULTON () auckland ac nz>]

On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 10:30, Russell Fulton wrote:

> Hmmm.... we saw an attack two days ago against an apache server which 
> consisted of GETs and POST followed by long strings of Xs followed by shell
> code.  
I have just got the logs from the admin and I find I lied, no shell code
was logged by apache, just the long string of 'X'S (about 8186 of them).
So either there was no shell code or apache truncated the string when it
logged it.

Apologies for the confusion.

-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer
The University of Auckland,  New Zealand


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