Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:22:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Jay Tribick <netadmin@fastnet.co.uk>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Err.. cat exploit.. (!) Message-ID: <199809101622.MAA09014@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980910165725.N831@pavilion.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980910115926.408V-100000@bofh.fast.net.uk> <19980910144324.B831@pavilion.net> <199809101510.LAA08830@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19980910165725.N831@pavilion.net>
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<<On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:57:25 +0100, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> said: >> That's why you should normally use `more' or `less'. > Ok, but how come the interactions we describe? Most terminals, including the VT102 emulated by `xterm', include some mechanism for generating an ``answerback'' upon receipt of a special control code or sequence. (In xterm's case, that happens to be a control-E.) A binary file is likely enough to contain such a code. There's might be a preference you can set which will disable this feature in xterm, but I don't know what it might be (and if there is one, it's not documented). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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