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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:58:16 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bogus hits on our Web server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809210956300.14517-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199809202128.PAA11447@lariat.lariat.org>

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Hi,

On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Brett Glass wrote:

> We've gotten several spates of Web log entries like the following:
> 
> 62.8.15.131 unknown - [20/Sep/1998:10:43:16 -0600] "GET /cgi-bin/phf" 404 -
> 62.8.15.131 unknown - [20/Sep/1998:10:43:17 -0600] "GET /cgi-bin/test-cgi"
> 404 -
> 62.8.15.131 unknown - [20/Sep/1998:10:43:18 -0600] "GET /cgi-bin/handler"
> 404 -

from /usr/local/etc/apache/access.conf-dist:

# There have been reports of people trying to abuse an old bug from
# pre-1.1 days.  This bug involved a CGI script distributed as a part of
# Apache.  By uncommenting these lines you can redirect these attacks to a
# logging script on phf.apache.org.  Or, you can record them yourself,
# using the script support/phf_abuse_log.cgi.

#<Location /cgi-bin/phf*>
#deny from all
#ErrorDocument 403 http://phf.apache.org/phf_abuse_log.cgi
#</Location>

Basically someone's trying to see if you have some old known-to-be-bad cgi
scripts laying around.

Brett
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