[11630] in bugtraq
Re: libtermcap xterm exploit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sylvain Robitaille)
Wed Sep 1 08:15:01 1999
Message-Id: <199908301813.OAA12040@alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:13:04 -0400
Reply-To: Sylvain Robitaille <syl@ALCOR.CONCORDIA.CA>
From: Sylvain Robitaille <syl@ALCOR.CONCORDIA.CA>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990827130450.2434A-100000@aainfo.ccu.uniovi.es>
On Friday, August 27, 1999, Jose Luis Martinez Arranz wrote:
> ****************************************************
> *** libtermcap xterm exploit ***
> *** by m0f0 1999 ***
> *** ***
> *** it works for xterm/nxterm ***
> *** Tested Slackware 3.5, 3.6 ***
> ****************************************************
For the record, I've tested this on both older Slackware (a bit of a 3.2
and 3.3 combination), and on RedHat-5.2. Both are vulnerable. :-(
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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca
Systems Manager Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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