Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:22:19 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Jay Tribick <netadmin@fastnet.co.uk>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Err.. cat exploit.. (!) Message-ID: <19980910182219.O831@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <199809101622.MAA09014@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 12:22:09PM -0400 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> <199809101622.MAA09014@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 12:22:09PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > 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). Ahh that explains it. Ta, Joe -- Josef Karthauser Technical Manager FreeBSD: The power to serve (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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