[12089] in bugtraq
Re: Kvt bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brock Tellier)
Fri Oct 1 14:37:27 1999
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:50:24 -0500
Reply-To: Brock Tellier <btellier@WEBLEY.COM>
From: Brock Tellier <btellier@WEBLEY.COM>
X-To: Pioppo <pioppo@FERRARA.LINUX.IT>, BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
----- Original Message -----
From: Pioppo <pioppo@FERRARA.LINUX.IT>
> Wed, 29 Sep 1999, in a message titled "Kvt bug", Sebastian Wain wrote:
>
> >In the xterm there is a feature to change the title of the window
> >You can change the title of the window sending one of the escape codes
of the
> >xterm.
> >(linux: man console_codes)
>
> >By Example:
>
> >ESC]2;This is my Xterm^G
>
> >This escape code changes the xterm's title to "This is my Xterm"
>
> >Obviously You can do the same using the kvt (Kde Virtual Terminal).
> >But the kvt has a buffer overflow. If the size of the new title of the
> >window is big enough then the kvt will do a core dump.
>
> xterm too (version 3.3.2.3) coredumps...
> I tried this with echo -e "\033]2;(60e+06 times 'a')\007"
In my testing:
xterm 3.3.3.1b(88b) does NOT crash
Eterm 0.8.9 does NOT crash
wterm 6.2.7 does NOT crash
kvt 0.18.7 DOES crash
konsole 0.9.10 does NOT crash
rxvt 2.4.7 does NOT crash
