From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 10 10:22:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09438 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:22:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09427 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19202; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:22:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Message-ID: <19980910182219.O831@pavilion.net> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:22:19 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Jay Tribick , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Err.. cat exploit.. (!) Mail-Followup-To: Garrett Wollman , Jay Tribick , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19980910144324.B831@pavilion.net> <199809101510.LAA08830@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19980910165725.N831@pavilion.net> <199809101622.MAA09014@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199809101622.MAA09014@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 12:22:09PM -0400 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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