Re: Suspicious 404's

[Peter Kosinar <goober () ksp sk>]

Hello,

> I got some suspicious error reports overnight.  In my own research it
> looks like an attempt to exploit a very old bug.  Perhaps it is very new.
>
> The URI which generated the error is:
> /.JPEG
> /.jpeg
> /.JPG
> /.jpg
> /.GIF
> /.gif
> /%0A%7D%0AypSlideOutMenu.prototype.mov
> /window.clearTimeout(this.aniTimer)%0Athis.mov
> /d%0Athis.mov

Couldn't it be some web-crawler that doesn't understand Javascript? Were 
there any other requests from the same IP around this time, possibly 
downloading some HTML files? If so, try to grep them (the HTML pages) for 
these strings, they might show the source of the problem.

Peter

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