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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 1997 12:09:57 +0800 (HKT)
From:      Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~} <ctkwan@cs.hku.hk>
To:        Christian Hochhold <expert@dusk.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: possible phf exploit?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.91.970127120818.25691A-100000@indigo10>
In-Reply-To: <199701260743.DAA06284@eternal.dusk.net>

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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, 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
> 

Diasble phf immediately by "chmod a-x phf". Somebody is trying to
get your password file. 

-Doug Kwan
 Dept. of Computer Science
 University of Hong Kong




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