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Re: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name
From: Solar Designer <solar () openwall com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 03:45:57 +0200
On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 03:09:58AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Note: I didn't receive Erik's message. The logs of my mail server says that 193.110.157.244 was blacklisted by zen.spamhaus.org and dnsbl.ahbl.org. Rather annoying...
I'm unsure we want a list admin topic in this same thread, but anyway: Sorry about this issue. It was temporary, which is why you presumably already correctly received a further message from the thread. In case anyone else may have missed messages, please check the archive: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/ We're normally relaying this list's messages from a different IP address, which as far as I can see wasn't and isn't listed by Spamhaus. A few days ago, that normal address happened to be temporarily rate-limited by Outlook servers too hard, so I temporarily switched to using the above IP address instead, without realizing it may have already been on a DNSBL before for whatever historical reason. Or alternatively maybe the rDNS vs. HELO discrepancy triggered the listing just now, because of such temporary use? Who knows. I requested delisting now, and anyway this isn't the address we currently use for this list. As to AHBL, its website says "There will be no further updates to the AHBL. While the private DNSbl/RHSbl is still in operation, the main project is complete and everyone involved has retired." So usage of this DNSBL by your mail server is most likely a misconfiguration. For further occasions, please bring such topics to me or to the list admin address privately, unless there's a reason to post to the list. Thanks, Alexander
Current thread:
- xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name Vincent Lefevre (Aug 13)
- Re: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name Thomas Dickey (Aug 13)
- Re: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name Erik Auerswald (Aug 13)
- Re: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name Collin Funk (Aug 16)
- Re: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name Vincent Lefevre (Aug 16)
- Re: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name Solar Designer (Aug 16)
- Re: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name Erik Auerswald (Aug 17)
- Re: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name Vincent Lefevre (Aug 17)
- Re: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name David A. Wheeler (Aug 17)
- Re: blocking weird file names (was: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name) Jacob Bachmeyer (Aug 18)
- Re: blocking weird file names (was: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name) Simon McVittie (Aug 19)
- Re: blocking weird file names (was: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name) Ali Polatel (Aug 19)
- Re: xterm terminal crash due to malicious character sequences in file name Collin Funk (Aug 16)