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Date:      Sun, 26 Jan 1997 00:19:00 -0800
From:      Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
To:        Christian Hochhold <expert@dusk.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: possible phf exploit?
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970126001859.00b2f434@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net>

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This an old thing. I am getting serveral hits per month, trying that.

Ulf.

At 03:43 AM 1/26/97 -0400, Christian Hochhold wrote:
>Evenin'
>
>While checking my access logs I came across a few very interesting
>things.. someone trying to get to the passwd file through pfh.
>The logs showed the attempted access as being in the following format:
>
>/cgi-bin/phf/Q?alias=x%ff/bin/cat%20/etc/passwd
>
>I don't run phf (nor have I checked it out per say), however
>to someone who does know/use phf this might prove interesting.
>
>Comments? =)
>
>Christian
>
>
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