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Old 06-27-2004, 12:37 PM   #1
TheOneAndOnlySM
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apache logs showing strange "SEARCH /\x90\x02\xb1" lines


doing some googling, i found that it was some webdav exploit for windows IIS servers (or a related buffer overflow attack) that is putting these enormously long messages in my access_log files:

SEARCH /\x90\x02\xb1..... (continues for about 30,000 characters); this is supposed to be just a nuisance for apache, but i was wondering how i could avoid all these requests to my server (it makes the log files unnecessarily large)

i found this site: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=22371 which says i can add this to my httpd.conf file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)cmd.exe(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)root.exe(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/_vti_bin\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/scripts\/\.\.(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/_mem_bin\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/msadc\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/MSADC\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/c\/winnt\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/d\/winnt\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/x90\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
</IfModule>

is this a good idea? i don't want users getting redirected away from my site just to be linked to microsoft's site...

*edit: darn, even after adding the above options to httpd.conf, i still get those SEARCH lines in my access_log; it is using up too much bandwidth...

Last edited by TheOneAndOnlySM; 06-27-2004 at 06:00 PM.
 
Old 06-28-2004, 04:39 PM   #2
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This sounds as if it may be better addressed in the Security forum rather than the Software forum. You may want to consider asking a moderator to move it. Good luck with it either way. -- J.W.
 
  


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