Railo US tour

2008-07-21 Thread Gert Franz
Hi all, we would like to invite you all to attend one of our presentations at one of the CFUG's we are visiting. If you like, you can check our website or blog for details: http://www.railo-technologies.com/en/index.cfm?treeID=364 http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/21/US-Tour-is-next If

CreateObject error on new server

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Phelan
In our application we have a cfc that we instantiate to a variable in certain instances. This has always worked without issue until we got our new server. On the new server, when I call the CreateObject method, it produces the error: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is

RE: CreateObject error on new server

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Watts
In our application we have a cfc that we instantiate to a variable in certain instances. This has always worked without issue until we got our new server. On the new server, when I call the CreateObject method, it produces the error: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax

RE: CreateObject error on new server

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Phelan
I changed it to the dot notation but still got the same error. We have a map to the root and the xyz/lts directory is directly below the root. Please note my new email address. David Phelan Senior CF Developer LifePoint Informatics (Formerly Labtest.com) (201) 447-9991 Ext. 318 [EMAIL

RE: CreateObject error on new server

2008-07-21 Thread Andrew Tyrone
I changed it to the dot notation but still got the same error. We have a map to the root and the xyz/lts directory is directly below the root. I had a problem like this a long time ago. Deleting and re-creating the mapping solved it.

(ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Che Vilnonis
Just was looking at a 'user monitor' page on one of my sites and I saw the url string below being called. I've seen several sql injection urls before, but what the heck are they trying to accomplish here? Eeverything is cfqueryparam'ed. Thanks, Che /rss.cfm?';DECLARE @S CHAR(4000);SET

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Kruger
This is a popular and very malicious SQL injection attack that is making the rounds: http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2008/7/18/Injection-Using-CAST-And-A SCII -Mark Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MCSE (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Gerald Guido
This is some sort of encoding... Like Bin Hex, Spammers use it to obscure urls and such. Computers read it just fine. If you look around on the internets you can find a decoder to render it to human readable form. You just need to figure out what sort of encoding they are using On Mon, Jul 21,

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
Read this: http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2008/7/18/Injection-Using-CAST-A nd-ASCII ~Brad -Original Message- From: Che Vilnonis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:55 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head... Just was

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
Why bother looking around the internet? Use your SQL server to decode it! Simply change the exec to a print statement. Very important! :) ~Brad -Original Message- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: (ot) URL Hack

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Gerald Guido
Why bother looking around the internet? Use your SQL server to decode it! Huh... Learn sumptin new every day. That is why I keep coming back here. ;) Thanx Brad. ~G~ On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Brad Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why bother looking around the internet? Use your SQL

RE: CreateObject error on new server

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Phelan
That did it! Thanks Very Much! Please note my new email address. David Phelan Senior CF Developer LifePoint Informatics (Formerly Labtest.com) (201) 447-9991 Ext. 318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Andrew Tyrone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Che Vilnonis
Tried printing the code in SQL Analyzer and got nothing. Can anyone translate it to text? Not sure what I am missing. /rss.cfm?';DECLARE @S CHAR(4000);SET @S=CAST(0x4445434C415245204054207661726368617228323535292C404320766172636861

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Francis
Can we please stop distributing this script ;) -Original Message- From: Che Vilnonis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:32 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head... Tried printing the code in SQL Analyzer and got nothing.

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Che Vilnonis
Good point. My bad... -Original Message- From: Dave Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:39 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head... Can we please stop distributing this script ;) -Original Message- From:

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
Works great for me. You have to remove the extra line breaks though. Here is what it does: DECLARE @T varchar(255),@C varchar(4000) DECLARE Table_Cursor CURSOR FOR select a.name, b.name from sysobjects a,syscolumns b where a.id=b.id and a.xtype='u' and (b.xtype=99 or b.xtype=35 or

Problems with switching from application.cfm to application.cfc

2008-07-21 Thread Richard Steele
We are now using CF8 and want to take advantage of features in application.cfc. In particular we want to take advantage of the missing template handler of CF8 application.cfc. However, in our current application.cfm file we had defined 20 or so variables that were not scoped (eg.

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
I appreciate your concern, but I'm pretty certain the bad people out there wanting to use this already know how to do it if they haven't already. One doesn't have to be too creative to come up with unique ways of screwing with databases. Drop database foo Crap, I just let another one slip.

Instantiated CFC behaving incorrectly in IE7 Safari, but works in Firefox

2008-07-21 Thread Russ Shakespear
I've got a simple component that I'm instantiating to maintain a persistent variable. Basically, the CFC checks for new entries in a table, and if there are any, sets this variable to be the last entry's id. The next time the CFC is called, it will check for new entries using this variable as

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Che Vilnonis
Yep, read the post. Must have been the line breaks that messed things up. -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head... Works great for me. You have to

RE: Instantiated CFC behaving incorrectly in IE7 Safari, but wo rks in Firefox

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Watts
I've got a simple component that I'm instantiating to maintain a persistent variable. Basically, the CFC checks for new entries in a table, and if there are any, sets this variable to be the last entry's id. The next time the CFC is called, it will check for new entries using this

RE: Problems with switching from application.cfm to application.c fc

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Watts
However, in our current application.cfm file we had defined 20 or so variables that were not scoped (eg. xcachepath=/cache. In application.cfc, these variables evidently need to be scoped (eg. request.xcachepath=/cache. This is a huge website and the thought of searching and replacing

RE: Problems with switching from application.cfm to application.cfc

2008-07-21 Thread Adrian Lynch
What happens if you create those unscoped vars in onRequest? Adrian -Original Message- From: Richard Steele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 July 2008 16:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: Problems with switching from application.cfm to application.cfc We are now using CF8 and want to take

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Gerald Guido
Drop database foo Crap, I just let another one slip. Brace yourself for another wave of attacks... :) Lets not forget what a mess Little Bobby Tables made. http://xkcd.com/327/ -- If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough -- Mario Andretti

Re: Problems with switching from application.cfm to application.cfc

2008-07-21 Thread Richard Steele
It's as if they don't exist. Variable not found errors abound. What happens if you create those unscoped vars in onRequest? Adrian We are now using CF8 and want to take advantage of features in application.cfc. In particular we want to take advantage of the missing template handler of CF8

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Andy Matthews
Mutha!!! Our company JUST had this happen. We're working through it right now. Thanks for the confirmation guys. Appreciated. -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 10:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Josh Nathanson
I am seeing these too on our site, in errors generated by bad data going into a cfqueryparam. If several people on this list are seeing this attack, it must be pretty widespread. -- Josh - Original Message - From: Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com

Re: Instantiated CFC behaving incorrectly in IE7 Safari, but wo rks in Firefox

2008-07-21 Thread Russ Shakespear
I've got a simple component that I'm instantiating to There is nothing in the code you've shown that is browser-specific. So, the problem is somewhere else. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Kris Jones
We're getting hit hard today with this. They're failing, because we use cfqueryparam and cfprocparam. But it is quite annoying. -KJ ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the

Re: Experiences with Railo

2008-07-21 Thread Jordan Michaels
H-Shpere was unfortunately bought by the same folks that own Plesk - a company now called Parellels. I would not be surprised if they attempt to move H-Shpere users toward Plesk in the very near future. Parallels was previously SW-Soft - makers of Plesk and Virtuozzo and a whole host of very

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Gerald Guido
We're getting hit hard today with this. /rss.cfm? Is is just rss.cfm? I haven't looked at our logs yet. Where did you see this. The server log files? ~~G~~ On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Kris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're getting hit hard today with this. They're failing, because

Re: Experiences with Railo

2008-07-21 Thread Jordan Michaels
Please accept my apologies. I should not have stated this on a public mailing list. It was an emotional response to past experiences that I should have kept under control. Again, my apologies. Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ Open BlueDragon Steering

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
Good on ya, mate. If there were an award for using cfqueryparam I would give it to you. Since this seems to be such a hot topic right now, has anyone heard of a CFML code scanner to check for vulnerable cfqueries kind of like the var scoper does? Maybe we should write one to promote security in

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Joshua Cyr
I was just looking into that myself. http://qpscanner.riaforge.org/ On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Brad Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good on ya, mate. If there were an award for using cfqueryparam I would give it to you. Since this seems to be such a hot topic right now, has anyone

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Che Vilnonis
+1 Good idea! -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 1:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head... Good on ya, mate. If there were an award for using cfqueryparam I would give it to you. Since

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
Sweet nectar... I'm trying this out and blogging it tonight. If it's pretty easy to run I think we should promote an international check your freakin' cfqueries day! Who want to buy the party hats and streamers? ~Brad -Original Message- From: Joshua Cyr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread james carberry
Just was looking at a 'user monitor' page on one of my sites and I saw the url string below being called. I've seen several sql injection urls before, but what the heck are they trying to accomplish here? Eeverything is cfqueryparam'ed. Thanks, Che /rss.cfm?';DECLARE @S CHAR(4000);SET

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread james carberry
Even easier than monkeying with every single one of your cfquery's just add following line to the TOP of all your application.cfm's: cfif cgi.SCRIPT_NAME contains EXEC( OR cgi.PATH_INFO contains EXEC( OR cgi.QUERY_STRING contains EXEC(cfabort/cfif This will immediately shut down execution

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Kris Jones
It'll show in your logs of course. We also have error reports that dump the error info and certain collections and mail it to the dev team. -KJ We're getting hit hard today with this. /rss.cfm? Is is just rss.cfm? I haven't looked at our logs yet. Where did you see this. The server log

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Watts
Even easier than monkeying with every single one of your cfquery's just add following line to the TOP of all your application.cfm's: cfif cgi.SCRIPT_NAME contains EXEC( OR cgi.PATH_INFO contains EXEC( OR cgi.QUERY_STRING contains EXEC(cfabort/cfif That would stop this specific

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
Band-Aids and duct tape... Filtering for known attacks: moderately useful as a stop gap if you are in the middle of an attack. Holistic approach to seal the original vulnerability against ALL current and future attacks (cfqueryparam): highly desirable. ~Brad -Original Message- From:

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread james carberry
Just put the following line at the TOP of your application.cfm to innoculate your CF webs against this attack: cfif cgi.SCRIPT_NAME contains EXEC( OR cgi.PATH_INFO contains EXEC( OR cgi.QUERY_STRING contains EXEC(cfabort/cfif peace, j Just was looking at a 'user monitor' page on one of my

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Wayne Janeck
We had the same hack on our site, did you guys figure out exactly what happened or how and where the sql was ran? or what the hackers purpose was? ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
The hacker's hope is that you will be outputting one of those varchar fields into a webpage without escaping HTML characters. The extra text being inserted into the database fields will include a malicious JavaScript file from another server into the webpage. I haven't looked at the JS to see

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Watts
The hacker's hope is that you will be outputting one of those varchar fields into a webpage without escaping HTML characters. The extra text being inserted into the database fields will include a malicious JavaScript file from another server into the webpage. I haven't looked at the JS

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Claude Schneegans
If several people on this list are seeing this attack, it must be pretty widespread. Until now, I just check for strings http or user in url.id containing something else than an integer value. I now just added DECLARE in the validation. All my templates expecting id=some numeric start with

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
For what it's worth, the specific URL that was injected in the sample I saw (http://1.verynx.cn/w.js) doesn't seem to work anymore. The server name doesn't resolve. === Yeah, that suck, I was going to dissect it. It appears that DNS is resolving it to 127.0.0.1. I didn't know you

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Claude Schneegans
For what it's worth, the specific URL that was injected in the sample I saw (http://1.verynx.cn/w.js) doesn't seem to work anymore. The server name doesn't resolve. === Yeah, that suck, I was going to dissect it. It is broken now, but this morning I was able to see the code.

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Watts
Until now, I just check for strings http or user in url.id containing something else than an integer value. I now just added DECLARE in the validation. All my templates expecting id=some numeric start with this code (included): CFIF val(id) EQ 0 AND (id CONTAINS http OR id CONTAINS

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Kruger
For those of you who have been hit by this attack and who need to try something short of restoring your DB, this script will generate a series of update statements in reverse of the hack that's been going around: --- DECLARE @T varchar(255),

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Andy Matthews
Dave... What other ways are there? I know of two: EXEC and EXECUTE. -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 1:05 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head... Even easier than monkeying with every

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Andy Matthews
Just an FYI... Our DBA (Ryan Cooper) took this same route and this is what he came up with. Thought I'd share this with the group on his behalf. He notes that you need to run this on each of your databases: -- start CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Infected]( [TableName] [varchar](255) NULL,

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Andy Matthews
I took the time to save out all of the code from the JS file that was inserted. Anyone that would like this code, please contact me off list and I'll be happy to zip it up for you. -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:25 PM

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Andy Matthews
We're getting hit with this attack via a wide range of hosted domains, and various files. Sitemap.cfm is a common one at this point. andy -Original Message- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 12:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Kruger
Brad/dave, Back when it was working the script did little more than insert a link inot the page that sent the user to a tageted links site/page... In other words it was a basic spam traffic generator - at least the ones on our sites. -mark Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MCSE (402) 408-3733 ext 105

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Claude Schneegans
That's fine, until the attack pattern contains something else, like Unicode sequences. Not from the same address though, because it is banned now. And the purpose of my code is not to replace CFQUERYPARAM. It is to add an extra feature that will not only protect the database, but ALSO the

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Kruger
And embedded in his code is one of the other ways of executing SQL - using sp_executeSQL His script is better than mine I think. Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MCSE (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Claude Schneegans
What other ways are there? I know of two: EXEC and EXECUTE http (http injection) and user (SQL injection) are classics. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address:

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Andy Matthews
I'm just talking about executing SQL, not SQL injection methods. -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:41 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head... What other ways are there? I know

cfpod overflow in IE

2008-07-21 Thread Bob Walasek
Good day! I'm having a problem with the cfpod tag in coldfusion 8 - seems to be an issue in IE only. When the pod contents exceed the pod's defined width, Firefox correctly maintains the width of the pod and adds a horizontal scroll bar to the bottom of the pod. IE, on the other hand, displays

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Bryan Stevenson
.and all hackers ALWAYS use the same IPcause they'd never get caught that way...hehe yes...that was meant to be sarcastic ;-) I see where you're coming from Claude, I just think (as Dave appears to) that you're wasting your timelet CFQUERYPARAM do what it's meant to. Cheers -

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Che Vilnonis
For me, all attempts are focusing on rss.cfm. Another post said they saw sitemap.cfm being hit. Can anyone confirm any other templates that are being hit? Perhaps only 'commonly named' templates are being hit? Che ~| Adobe®

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
Easy. sp_executesql The point here is, you can spend a lifetime guessing every bad way a hacker can ruin your database. The root cause however is that your input is not bound to a parameter in your SQL statement. Cfqueryparam closes that hole for good. Whether you want to ban people IPs a and

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Jerry Johnson
I have all of the js files open and saved to a text file, fwiw, from this morning. On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth, the specific URL that was injected in the sample I saw (http://1.verynx.cn/w.js) doesn't seem to work anymore.

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Atkinson
We've been dealing with these too - to address Che's question they were crawling here for pages with query strings but not much else - as well as our implementing solutions offered here (much appreciation to all), our net. admin. simply shut down these attacks at the firewall - Sonicwall is

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Jerry Johnson
The attempts are based on a google search of .cfm files with parameters that can be exploited. (They have automated the page search, as well as the attack itself.) It is not a cf specific attack, but is also nailing php, asp, and .net sites. Here is a decent writeup of it all.

Mystery Character

2008-07-21 Thread Robert Harrison
Does anyone know the character code for this character: . My Mac users are uploading files with this character and it does not work in a URL string... I'd kill it but I don't know what character it is. Using . in a regex replace does not work. Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive

RE: Mystery Character

2008-07-21 Thread Robert Harrison
NO. The character got converted to a period. It looks like a bullet. Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive services Austin Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 T : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be either/or...

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Cameron Johnson
We got hit, and, according to the IIS logs, they hit non-standard templates in varied directories: /indexPrint.cfm /events/institute.cfm /search/TaxonomyResults.cfm /conferences/article.cfm /applications/statsmap/detail.cfm I don't see much of a pattern. Cameron For me, all attempts are

RE: Mystery Character

2008-07-21 Thread Experienced CF Developer
Robert, Can't see the character, but check out http://www.asciitable.com and see if you can find it there. Dave -Original Message- From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 3:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Mystery Character Does anyone know the character

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Kris Jones
I can confirm that many templates in our site are being hit. And they are not commonly named. -KJ For me, all attempts are focusing on rss.cfm. Another post said they saw sitemap.cfm being hit. Can anyone confirm any other templates that are being hit? Perhaps only 'commonly named' templates

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Watts
Yeah, that suck, I was going to dissect it. It appears that DNS is resolving it to 127.0.0.1. I didn't know you could do that. verynx.cn resolves to 121.12.169.186, but it returns a 404 when I submit a GET for w.js. Here's a sample, from another .js file used: window.status=;

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Watts
Not from the same address though, because it is banned now. This appears to be a botnet-driven attack. Blocking addresses may be problematic in that case. And the purpose of my code is not to replace CFQUERYPARAM. That's fine. My concern isn't really with you, Claude, but with people who

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Watts
What other ways are there? I know of two: EXEC and EXECUTE. Some people already mentioned sp_executesql, which is the preferred approach nowadays. But what about Unicode character conversion? What about from the shell using sp_cmdshell to fetch batch files remotely and execute them with

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Che Vilnonis
Here's another question. Are sites that rewrite URLs (i.e., no .cfm extension in the url) more or less NOT being hit by these malbots? ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Claude Schneegans
.and all hackers ALWAYS use the same IPcause they'd never get caught that way...hehe yes...that was meant to be sarcastic It does not look sarcastic to me, just may be a little retarded ;-) I see where you're coming from Claude, I just think (as Dave appears to) that you're wasting

RE: Mystery Character

2008-07-21 Thread Robert Harrison
I don't see that character in the ASCII list, but it's a bullet character. Mac users can insert it into file names using option 8 on the Mac. When they upload a file with that character it converts to something else (also not in the ASCII list) that can't be found when used in a URL string.

Re: Mystery Character

2008-07-21 Thread morgan l
Try here: http://www.miniguidez.com/macosx/keystrokesguide/specialcharacters/specialcharacters.html It lists decimal and hex values for corresponding mac keystrokes. On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Robert Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see that character in the ASCII list, but it's

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Claude Schneegans
This appears to be a botnet-driven attack. Blocking addresses may be problematic in that case. Why do you all want to interpret this as a final solution? Blocking an IP will NOT block ANY attack, it will just stop the current attack from THIS address, period. But it is safer than letting the

RE: Mystery Character

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
I've ran into things like this before. Is there a CF function (or even a way in Java) to take a character and return the ASCII code for it? (Or whatever is appropriate, I don't know if ASCII is really the right term) ~Brad -Original Message- From: morgan l [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Mystery Character

2008-07-21 Thread Experienced CF Developer
Doesn't asc('x') do that? Or am I missing something? Dave -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 3:53 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Mystery Character I've ran into things like this before. Is there a CF function (or even a way in Java)

RE: Mystery Character

2008-07-21 Thread Experienced CF Developer
Actually, I just looked it up: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt121.htm According to this page, starting in MX 6, asc() supports values up to 65536, so it should work for you. Output your character value to the screen with asc(sFunkyCharacter) and you'll find

RE: Mystery Character

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
Well there you have it! That was pretty simple... Thanks Dave. -Original Message- From: Experienced CF Developer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 4:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Mystery Character Actually, I just looked it up:

Re: Problems with switching from application.cfm to application.c fc

2008-07-21 Thread Richard Steele
I like your idea: cffunction name=onRequest ... cfargument name=targetPage cfset xcachepath = /cache ... cfinclude template=#Arguments.targetPage# ... /cffunction However I'm not sure how to implement this. What is the targetpage? Since this is the root

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Heikki Heikkinen
Mark, Thanks for the info. I tried this and it located the code. I removed the comment and Executed however, the code still remains. Any help you can offer would be great! Thanks! For those of you who have been hit by this attack and who need to try something short of restoring your DB,

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Matt Quackenbush
Did I really just read that? Please, someone, anyone, tell me that I didn't. Claude, you're certainly free to do what you wish to do in your own applications, so this comment is not directed to you at all. For those of you who are actually trying to learn and become better

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Watts
Why do you all want to interpret this as a final solution? Blocking an IP will NOT block ANY attack, it will just stop the current attack from THIS address, period. But it is safer than letting the malbot try every page it can find,... until it does find one in which CFQUERYPARAM was

Page break/blank page in cfdocument

2008-07-21 Thread Tom McNeer
Hi, I am creating a PDF from a dynamically created HTML page. To attempt to minimize styling problems and other issues, I use cfhttp to call a page template which builds the HTML using query results. Then I simply output the page content within the cfdocument tags. I've done this before, without

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Experienced CF Developer
And for those of you who take this advice and DO use cfqueryparam ***always*** make sure you NEVER use SELECT * (which you shouldn't do anyway). I inherited an application that had a ton of SELECT * all over it and no cfqueryparam tags. Over the years I added cfqueryparam tags as I worked on the

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Heikki Heikkinen
Brad, This took care of part of the issue... but not all. I get this error: Msg 8152, Level 16, State 13, Line 1 String or binary data would be truncated. The statement has been terminated. Does anyone know what I need to do to get around the error above? thanks! Works great for me. You

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Ahhh...so there were other reasons for doing what you are doingthat makes much more sense. As Dave already saidI too was concerned about your solution being put forward in a security context...because it's not. It is of course a valid way to deal with server load issues you have

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Kris Jones
As a rule I use cfqueryparam. And generally try to stick to stored procedures, and use cfstoredproc/cfprocparam. However, I am now working with an app that uses cached queries regularly, and is still on CF7. You cannot use cfqueryparam with a cached query in CF7. What are the alternatives? -KJ

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
Hmm, I sure hope you replaced the exec with a print statement -Original Message- From: Heikki Heikkinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 4:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head... Brad, This took care of part of the

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Wood
Cache result sets manually. You can wrap that up nicely in a custom tag. ~Brad -Original Message- From: Kris Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am now working with an app that uses cached queries regularly, and is still on CF7. You cannot use cfqueryparam with a cached query in CF7.

RE: Experiences with Railo

2008-07-21 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hey, as long as you're being honest and frank about the situation, I know I, for one, appreciate knowing not just that there are products out there, but how they work and are or are not supported. Your experience can save others of us tens of thousands of dollars, as well. Rick -Original

Seeing Socket Event Gateway break on line breaks with CF8?

2008-07-21 Thread Jeremy Bower
Having upgraded to CF8 with no code changes I am seeing a socket event gateway accept an xml message line by line and not the entire xml packet in one shot (each line is shown in the log separately). Passing a simple sentence with a return in it also becomes 2 events. This obviously causes

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Gerald Guido
I went to look at a site I do side work for and they got hit. No... not my stuff. :) We are going to be reading about this on all the tech rags like Info World and Zdnet tomorrow. ZDnet will prolly post it with a H1 tag with a blink tag for good measure. One of the things about SQL server I

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Dave Watts
We are going to be reading about this on all the tech rags like Info World and Zdnet tomorrow. It was in those a week or two ago, already. This is not new. Originally, it primarily targeted classic ASP apps. HP released a free vulnerability scanner called Scrawlr in response. Dave Watts, CTO,

Re: Experiences with Railo

2008-07-21 Thread Gerald Guido
Yeah... what Rick said. Psoft put out a great product. H-Sphere is/was a great product. Sorry to hear about that... and your experiences. Your words were kind compared to what I had to say during the Rehat Debacle of 02. ;) ~G~ On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Vega
Firewall solution is another way, we block anything in the url with CAST( OR EXEC( Thank You Dan On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are going to be reading about this on all the tech rags like Info World and Zdnet tomorrow. It was in those a week or

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