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Re: A short warning on the X11 Editres protocol
From: Frank v Waveren <fvw.bugtraq () var cx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 12:08:03 +0200
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:37:37PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
However, xterm is an Xt application and therefore speaks a long-forgotten protocol called Editres. As a result, any Editres client (such as "editres") can instruct an xterm window to change its allowSendEvents setting. After that, it's possible to send synthesized events to the xterm window and hijack the terminal.
And even if it weren't toggleable with editres, there's still the XTEST extension which seems to be pretty omnipresent these days. Basically, you shouldn't be mixing privileges in one X session (even using the security extension it's generally something you want to avoid, design-wise). -- Frank v Waveren Fingerprint: BDD7 D61E fvw@[var.cx|stack.nl] ICQ#10074100 5D39 CF05 4BFC F57A Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/468D62C8 FA00 7D51 468D 62C8
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