oss-security - CVE id request: htop

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Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 13:06:02 +0100
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE id request: htop

Hi,
htop doesn't filter non printable characters in process 
names which enables processes doing evil things with the 
display using escape sequences.

http://bugs.debian.org/504144

Steve, can you assign a CVE id to this?

Cheers
Nico

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