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Re: /sumthin Revisited


From: H D Moore <sflist () digitaloffense net>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 14:59:50 -0600

A couple servers I manage have been getting these off and on for months, 
the last one was last night, the originating host was a broadband user on 
ATTBI who was filtering everything inbound. 

On Monday 06 January 2003 03:35 pm, Chris Barford wrote:
I can't confirm this but I would guess this would be a good way to get
the http headers of websites. Perhaps then following this a potential
hacker could see you were for example running IIS 5.0 and in subsequent
scans check for the unicode exploits. Or a more likely cause would be
to get a list of apache servers to try to use the openssl-too-open
exploits against





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