RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Terminal Emulator Security Issues

From: Steve Wray (steve.wrayat_private)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 12:32:07 PST

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    > On Monday, 24 February 2003, at 15:02:52 (-0600),
    > H D Moore wrote:
    > 
    > > Eterm and rxvt both implement what they call the "screen dump"
    [snip]
    > > followed by the screen dump command.
    > > 
    > > $ echo -e "\ec+ +\n\e]<Code>;/home/user/.rhosts\a"
    > 
    > As you noted, this is no longer possible with the current release of
    > Eterm, which has been out for some time now.  I didn't think it was
    > exploitable until, through a discussion related to this Debian bug:
    > 
    > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=141374&archive=yes
     
    Isn't this one of the generic problems with running the stable
    debian distro? It tends to get left behind. Sort of like end-of-life
    only undeclared...
    
    
    
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