Re: character injecting on linux console

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:50:24 -0300, Nelson Brito said:
> : I think this issue popped up several times on BUGTRAQ few years ago...
> : This is a pretty interesting issue, because e.g. pine used to escape such
> : characters improperly (not sure if this is still any problem, I reported
> : it a while ago).
>
> I didn't remember this issue on BUGTRAQ, but I can't point it out that this
> is OLD-NEWS in the wild.

I can't *prove* it, but I know the first time I heard of "something fails
to filter ANSI/vt100 control chars" was at my previous employer, which
means it dates back to at least May 89.  I seem to remember something
way back in the '84/'85 time frame - it could have been the BSD 4.3
release notes saying "We fixed a lot of these from 4.2".  I do remember
various BSD4.2-derived systems having lots of filtering issues....

So we've reached the point in computing history where we have younger
readers of this list hearing about bugs that were *first* found before
the readers were even born.

How depressing.

-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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