Re: terminal echo-back exploits

From	John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: terminal echo-back exploits
Date	2020-03-30 11:35 -0500
Organization	Dancing Horse Hill
Message-ID	<87h7y56brt.fsf@dhh.gt.org> (permalink)
References	(1 earlier) <r5m8eh$toc$1@dont-email.me> <r5oprj$sp1$1@gonzo.revmaps.no-ip.org> <r5p85d$esv$2@tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net> <r5sma9$cgj$7@gonzo.revmaps.no-ip.org> <r5t2ug$hhq$1@tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net>

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Jasen Betts wrote:
> The idea was you put your shell code on the screen and then send the
> escape code for "return the contents of the screen" , I was able to
> provoke a feedback loop that could only be stopped by power-cycling the
> terminal.

The crude version of this, repeatedly reinvented by undergraduates, was
to simply put the victim's terminal into some weird state from which he
didn't know how to recover.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

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