Re: FWD: Debian Swirl ascii-art
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 11:42:02AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > >I find it slightly scary that that displayed in color under mutt. DOes
> > >it allow arbitrary escape sequences through?
> > Yes, but it is not supported and is known to interfere with normal
> > coloring made by mutt itself.
>
> You are aware of the exploitability of passing raw escape sequences to a
> terminal?
What exactly can happen?
I have a bug report on joe about this, #42631, but as yet nobody has told me
how exactly is that bad security-wise, see the bug log. :(
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