This is an attempt to cause a buffer overflow, an ancient technique
that hasn't worked for a long time.
Actually this typically never really worked for Apache (I think there
were a couple of buffer overflows but required some very specific
configuration) it was to target buffer overflows in IIS. It typically
still does on Windows IIS servers since they are very vulnerable to
buffer overflows. In fact each new IIS work is just normally just a
subtle variation of this same technique. Buffer overflow attacks also
affect many other Windows servers too, Windows does poor bounds
checking.
So yes you can probably ignore this on OS X, but it could be a new
sort of attack or an attack that still affects some other server.
Likewise there could come a day where a new sort of buffer overflow
is found in some strange Apache configurations, but the project has
tried to engineer this out, as opposed to MSFT which just patches out
each worm.
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-dhan
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