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Re: Strange log in Apache after webdav-like exploit


From: Sebastien Millet <milletse () club-internet fr>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:02:00 +0200

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:37:26 +1200, Robin <robin () kallisti net nz> wrote
:

I got a spate of these a while back, but haven't noticed them for a
while. The content of the non-encoded part of the request tended to be
a piece of HTML that was located somewhere on the site (although, now
you mention it, it is quite likely to have been something generated
with PHP).

I think the content is from a previous page served by the same child
process.

I checked to see if the same IP addresses had accessed
anything else on the site, perhaps having the content in a buffer or
something, but that came back negative. I ended up not getting any
further with it, got busy, and forgot about it. Didn't consider it
could be an apache issue.

Anyway, I would have seen it on around apache versions 2.0.47-ish. I
haven't noticed it on 2.0.50 (I still get the \0x90 parts, but not the
content at the end.) PHP version around 4.3.7. I could do a more
comprehensive look at when I saw what in the logs versus what versions
of apache and PHP I was running at the time, if deemed useful. 

Looks like the 2.0.50 version solved the problem, despite there is no
such entry in the changelog.

Thanks for you answer.


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