On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Michal Zalewski wrote:
> [...] most of terminfo-based programs will accept TERM variable set to
> eg. '../../../tmp/x'. All we have to do is to provide 'our own termcap
> file', set TERM, then execute vunerable program w/terminfo support. In
> fact, in.telnetd daemon shipped eg. with RH 6.0 /as well as with many
> other recent distributions based on terminfo entries/, is vunerable...
Oh, haven't said, for clearance... I'm talking about terminfo support and
tgetent() function implemented in libncurses, which is buggy as well,
while ncurses allows '../' tricks.
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