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Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1503241604550.9777@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:07:40 +1100 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave@...sfall.org>
To: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: CVE-2014-8166 cups: code execution via unescape
ANSI escape sequences
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> So this one is pretty hard to cause exploitation without heavy social
> engineering/etc.
Back when I was fooling around with such things in the 80s, I found that
not only could I program the function keys on an emulator, I could also
execute them... Dunno whether this is still the case.
I seem to recall something like "FORMAT C: /YES" or similar.
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