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Date:      Sat, 20 Oct 2001 14:36:48 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Michael MacKinnon <mackinnon.m@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: attackers! How do I know whether or not they were successful?
Message-ID:  <3BD1EE70.DF489FD1@owt.com>
References:  <20011019105246.Q38148-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20011020141127.00a191b0@netmail.home.com>

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Michael MacKinnon wrote:
> 
> I noticed in my logs what appears to be an attempt to try a buffer overflow
> in my apache logs.
> I've included the excerpts from my logs below for reference.
> 
> My questions:
> 1) I haven't opened up port 80 with my firewall. How did they connect? Is there
> a problem with my rules? (I've included those below for reference as well)

Don't use that firewall.

> 
> 2) How can I tell how successful the attempt was?

It wasn't it is an MS IIS exploit.

> 
> 3) Any ideas what the attempt was trying to do? Is this a known exploit? Where
> would I find out?

Visit http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-19.html

> 
> 4) What do I do now? Anything else I should do?

Email the site and tell them they are running code-red or ignore it. You
should be seeing 100's of Nimda hits and 1 attempt by code-red is
microscopic.

Kent

> 
> Thanks for all your help in this.
> Mike
> 
> Notes:
> I have FreeBSD 4.4 recently installed from an iso image.
> 
> My Firewall Rules:
> block in     on dc0
> block in log quick on dc0 from 192.168.0.0/16 to any
> block in log quick on dc0 from 172.16.0.0/12 to any
> block in log quick on dc0 from 10.0.0.0/8 to any
> block in log quick on dc0 from 127.0.0.0/8 to any
> block in log quick on dc0 from <my ip address>/32 to any
> # allow my own network stuff to get out
> pass out     quick on dc0 proto tcp/udp from 192.168.0.0/24 to any keep state
> pass out     quick on dc0 proto icmp    from 192.168.0.0/24 to any keep state
> pass out     quick on dc0 proto tcp/udp from <my ip address>/32 to any keep
> state
> 
> httpd-error contents:
> [Sat Oct 19 13:25:07 2001] [error] [client 131.123.8.178] Client sent
> malformed Host header
> 
> httpd-access contents:
> 131.123.8.178 - - [19/Oct/2001:13:25:07 -0700] "GET
> /default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a
> HTTP/1.0" 400 341 "-" "-"
> 
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