Re: Ascii-x86 was: Blind Remote Buffer Overflow

[oysteivi () TIHLDE ORG (Oystein Viggen)]

Bill Weiss spake thus:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins () ITDOMAIN COM AU>
> To: <VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 6:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Ascii-x86 was: Blind Remote Buffer Overflow
>
>
> > FWIW I recall in dos there was an ability to hold down alt and use the
> > numeric keypad to enter charcodes directly in
> >
> > ie ALT-1,2,7 resulted in ASCII 127 being sent to the application....
>
> Works in Windows too, last I checked.  Let's see...
> c = alt + 99
> works fine.

I believe this is actually a BIOS feature, and should therefore work on
most "lesser" operating systems that do not have a very advanced keyboard
driver.

Oystein