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Date:      Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:32:13 +0100
From:      Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
To:        Anon <anon@elhacker.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xterm 253 DECRQSS Again?
Message-ID:  <4B6F153D.1010409@bsdforen.de>
In-Reply-To: <619714181002070650q72de2e23r9c7afbb8223630e0@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <619714181002070650q72de2e23r9c7afbb8223630e0@mail.gmail.com>

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Anon wrote:
> Hi
> 
> long ago I read about the bug in Xterm CVE-2008-2383 and updated xterm. Now
> I have the version of xterm 253 and on occasion being in xterm to run a cat
> on binary file (executable, images, etc) appear repeatedly on Shell "2c1:
> command not found". You will see in the picture you take
> 
> http://lh3.ggpht.com/_1zYIthtq7IY/S24v__tlDAI/AAAAAAAAAJk/aWhG5E3fJ4o/s800/xterm_bug.png
> 
> This can be a bug again?
> 
> Regards

Some of that binary data is probably interpreted as escape sequences.
A terminal simply isn't meant to display binary data.

Regards



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