Re: terminal weirdness?

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz () CSH RIT EDU>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:22:29AM -0600, Curt Wilson wrote:

> I recall a while back there was an ADM tool, a local exploit, that
> used escape sequences to create dangerous command lines that got passed into
> your shell -  for instance adding passwords, + + to .rhosts, and the like that
> would execute with the security privs of the current user.

Back in the DOS days, it was possible to do this sort of thing using ANSI
escape sequences.  These are powerful enough to do really nasty things like
assign macros (arbitrary strings) to keystrokes.  I don't know who imagined
that to be a good place to implement that kind of functionality.

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 - mdz