{"id":350,"date":"2009-06-06T12:10:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2009-06-06T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T19:10:59","slug":"interesting-log-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/06\/interesting-log-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting log activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

While trying to debug the Shorten2Ping<\/a> plugin (a really nifty thing, if I could get it working) I went digging through my Apache error logs looking for any PHP errors. (Well, okay, I didn’t actually dig<\/em>, I just did a last on the file.) What I saw was interesting, even though it did not help the debugging at all. In fact it kind of derailed the whole process. What I saw was an obvious attempt to find Horde<\/a> on my server (which I did run temporarily a few years ago). My first guess was that there was a new exploit out for Horde. I did some digging around and found that, yes, indeedy, there is. I found the details of the exploit<\/a> at securityvulns.com<\/a> (which is a mirror of or mirrored by www.security.nnov.ru<\/a> which is where the first relevant Google link took me.) Oddly enough I have not seen this show up on any other security sites yet, even though I see that the report on securityvulns.com is from March.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, in case you are curious, here are the relevant lines from the log. (IPs have not<\/em> been changed to protect the guilty.)<\/p>\n

[Sat Jun 06 01:46:53 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/README\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:46:53 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/horde\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:46:54 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/horde2\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:46:55 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/horde3\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:46:56 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/horde-3.0.5\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:46:57 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/horde-3.0.6\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:46:58 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/horde-3.0.7\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:46:58 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/horde-3.0.8\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:46:59 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/horde-3.0.9\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:47:00 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/mail\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:47:01 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/email\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:47:02 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/webmail\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:47:03 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/newmail\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:47:03 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/mails\r\n[Sat Jun 06 01:47:04 2009] [error] [client 81.210.76.194] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/localhost\/htdocs\/evardsson.com\/mailz<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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