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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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