Bug#600129: xterm: segmentation fault with -fb and other options

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Friedrich Delgado wrote:
>
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 261-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > A segmentation fault in xterm with -fb has been mentioned on Bugtraq
> > and Full Disclosure.
> >
> > http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-September/076294.html
>
> It's a shame, but your report there is inaccurate (it's not a buffer 
> overflow).  There's enough information in your report here to see the
> problem.

hmm - I see the "credit" is claimed by Celil Unuver from 
SecurityArchitect.Org (the report's inaccurate in any case).

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