Re: FWD: Debian Swirl ascii-art
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Josip Rodin wrote:
> 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?
happened once to me, in my younger days when I was still a student,
and had a file full of words of dubious politeness in my home
directory.
One of my classmates sent me a message which consisted (more or less)
of following:
From: His Name <ANSI for go to beginning of line>From: Sysadmin's Name
Message: Come immediately to my office, reason: insulting file in
your home directory
needless to say, I was more than a bit embarrassed (and so was the
sysadmin when I went to him and tried to explain why the file is there) :-)
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