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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. Re:In case of slashdotting... by Coke+in+a+Can · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You'd be suprised how easily a site can go down.

    (Yes, it is karma whoring, but after all the shit this site has given me, I think I deserve some karma. Did you know that I sacrificed my connection to mirror the Starship Exeter vids? That site went DOWN. I mean DOWN. My mirror was actually useful. I was listed as a mirror by the Exeter guys. Did I get ANY karma? No.)

  2. Re:In case of slashdotting... by Coke+in+a+Can · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would, but as I said before, I'm pissed after sacrificing my connection (mirroring Starship Exeter), and not getting ANY thanks. My ping went from 50 to 900. My DSL felt like dialup.

    Some karma would have been nice, but nooooo. Just kill my connection and leave. Freaking leeches.

  3. Re:In case of slashdotting... by Coke+in+a+Can · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fine. Let's /. YOU and make YOUR DSL connection feel like 56k, see how THAT feels.

  4. Re:A simple solution by Elbereth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That was a joke, son.
    About as sharp as a bag of potatoes, this one.