full-disclosure - SEARCH web attack

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From: Karl.Levinson at dhs.gov (Levinson, Karl)
Subject: SEARCH web attack

Google it:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=SEARCH-%2F%5Cx90%5Cx0
2%C2%B1

This is presumably an attempt to exploit the MS03-007 NTDLL vulnerability
via WebDAV.

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sf/pentest/2003-03/0109.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.gaobot.jb.h
tml
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-007.mspx

Other people have seen the following requests in their web server logs:
SEARCH /AAAAAAAAA...  or   SEARCH /?.?.?.?.?.?.?....


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Subject: [despammed] [Full-Disclosure] SEARCH web attack


during March the apache log shows some SEARCH attacks like "SEARCH
/\x90\x02?\x02? ... x90\x90" 414 343 "-" "-"

see full examples
http://thum.ath.cx/Apache/code.414

can someone enlighten me what the wanted result may be?
tia