Re: False Positive or not?

["AJ Butcher, Information Systems and Computing" <Alex.Butcher () bristol ac uk>]

--On 30 March 2004 11:56 -0600 "Cody R. Smith" <csmith () go-cypress com> 
wrote:

> I am examining the payload of a bunch of packets and this is what it says
>
>
> length = 301
>
>
>
> 000 : 53 45 41 52 43 48 20 2F 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41   SEARCH /AAAAAAAA

[etc.]

> Is someone actually sending this to my webserver or is this what a
> browser does?

Looks to me as though someone's trying to test for a buffer overflow in 
your web server's handling of the SEARCH method by attempting to crash it.

> Thanks
> Cody Smith CCNA, MCP

Best Regards,
Alex.
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