access log question...

[Bill Campbell]

Somebody attempting a buffer overflow attack.

On Thu, May 06, 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
>Anyone know what this might be in my apache/access.log?
>
>216.82.207.170 - - [06/May/2004:17:15:30 -0700] "SEARCH
>/\x90\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1
>\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1
>
>[Snip]
>
>\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90" 414 346 "-" "-"

Bill
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