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Getting Hacked Through Your Terminal

Posted by timothy on from the nothing-new-under-the-sun dept.

hdm writes "My company recently published a paper on security issues with common terminal emulator applications. The interesting thing about these vulnerabiltiies is that many of them only require the victim to be running tail on their log files (apache, syslog, etc) for the attack to be successful. The paper (TXT) can be found here."

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  1. Reinventing by Sarcazmo · · Score: 5, Funny

    So they discovered ANSI bombs over again.

    Simple! Just tell Linux not to load ANSI.SYS, problem solved!