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Date:      Sun, 26 Jan 1997 10:02:53 -0800
From:      erich@powerwareintl.com (Eric Harley)
To:        Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>, Christian Hochhold <expert@dusk.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: possible phf exploit?
Message-ID:  <v02130404af113a1108f1@[207.104.16.65]>

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You can all thank 2600 Magazine. last month they did an issue on phf and
how to crack it. Interesting article, but since the problem was solved a
long time ago, the article is useless.

>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.
>>

                                     Eric
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