[15175] in bugtraq
Re: [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Reed)
Fri Jun 2 17:38:43 2000
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 22:21:53 +1000
Reply-To: Darren Reed <avalon@COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU>
From: Darren Reed <avalon@COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU>
X-To: kit@ROOTSHELL.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006011118280.17559-100000@ruff> from "Kit Knox"
at Jun 01, 2000 11:21:16 AM
In some mail from Kit Knox, sie said:
>
> /*
> *
> * xterm Denial of Service Attack
> * (C) 2000 Kit Knox <kit@rootshell.com> - 5/31/2000
> *
> * Tested against: xterm (XFree86 3.3.3.1b(88b) -- crashes
> * rxvt v2.6.1 -- consumes all available memory and then
> * crashes.
OpenWindows xterm is not vulnerable (SunOS4+)
HP-UX CDE xterm is not vulnerable
Darren
