Re: Apache 1.3.XX

From: Blake Frantz (blakeat_private)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 12:53:35 PST

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    What was the full URI ?  Are you sure it wasn't some box infected with
    Code Red II or the like ?
    
    On a side note, how could this vulnerability yeild a root shell when
    apache isn't/shouldn't be running as root.
    
    -Blake
    
    On 1 Feb 2002, Russell Fulton wrote:
    
    > 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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