Bugtraq: Re: Kvt bug

[btellier () WEBLEY COM (Brock Tellier)]

----- Original Message -----
From: Pioppo <pioppo () FERRARA LINUX IT>

> Wed, 29 Sep 1999, in a message titled "Kvt bug", Sebastian Wain wrote:
>
> > In the xterm there is a feature to change the title of the window
> > You can change the title of the window sending one of the escape codes
of the
> > xterm.
> > (linux: man console_codes)
> > By Example:
> > ESC]2;This is my Xterm^G
> > This escape code changes the xterm's title to "This is my Xterm"
> > Obviously You can do the same using the kvt (Kde Virtual Terminal).
> > But the kvt has a buffer overflow. If the size of the new title of the
> > window is big enough then the kvt will do a core dump.
> xterm too (version 3.3.2.3) coredumps...
> I tried this with echo -e "\033]2;(60e+06 times 'a')\007"
In my testing:

xterm 3.3.3.1b(88b) does NOT crash
Eterm 0.8.9 does NOT crash
wterm 6.2.7 does NOT crash
kvt 0.18.7 DOES crash
konsole 0.9.10 does NOT crash
rxvt 2.4.7 does NOT crash