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Date:      Sat, 7 Apr 2001 11:14:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.net>
To:        Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>
Cc:        Walter Hop <walter@binity.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Look familiar?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104071053070.5476-100000@veager.siteplus.net>
In-Reply-To: <3ACF2531.49B7CC17@quake.com.au>

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Thanks for the quick response. =20

I am not familiar with ISS, so I wasn't sure if this was a known attack
ploy.  I have had a few other file not found errors that look suspicious
as well as this sendmail error.

Apr 4 00:19:57 aurora sendmail[8764]: AAA08756: Truncated MIME
Content-Disposition header due to field size (possible attack)=20

--
Jim Weeks


On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Kal Torak wrote:

> Jim Weeks wrote:
> >=20
> > While checking one of my apache error logs this morning, I find a long
> > list of the following error.
> > I was  wondering if it makes sense to anyone?  I am especially curious
> > about characters "=C0=AF".
> >=20
> > [Sat Apr 7 05:55:02 2001] [error] [client 207.31.75.150] File does not
> > exist:
> > /usr/local/www/data/scripts/..=C0=AF..=C0=AF..=C0=AF..=C0=AF..=C0=AF..=
=C0=AF..=C0=AF..=C0=AF/winnt/system32/cmd.exe
> >=20
> > [Sat Apr 7 05:55:02 2001] [error] [client 207.31.75.150] File does not
> > exist:
> > /usr/local/www/data/scripts/..=C0=AF..=C0=AF..=C0=AF..=C0=AF..=C0=AF..=
=C0=AF..=C0=AF..=C0=AF/winnt/system32/cmd.exe
>=20
>=20
> Looks like some sort of buffer overflow attack, and they are then trying
> to spawn the cmd shell (if you can even call it a shell)...
>=20
> Since your unix system is not windows, even if the buffer overflow worked
> they sure wouldnt be able to run cmd.exe :P
> Obviously this is one of the great new holes in NT + ISS that are found
> every second day...
>=20
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>=20


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