Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:45:50 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael Richards) Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cat exploit Message-ID: <17574.905449550@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:14:53 -0300." <199809101614.NAA07518@dragon.acadiau.ca>
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> Is it just me or did everyone miss the point of Jay's message? The problem is that Jay's message didn't actually have a point. :) Rather, it described a symtom common to most VT100 compliant terminal emulators and something very clearly under the "well don't DO that then" category. It's nothing new at all and if you're not sure of the contents of a file, don't just blindly cat it to your screen. The same goes for any binary I might hand you - if I put up a file on an FTP site called ``megaspacewar.exe'' and you go and run it on your Windows box and it trojans you to death (or worse), who's fault is that? :-) Same basic issue. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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