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From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Subject: xterm DISPLAY answerback security issues?
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Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Date: 9 May 91 20:17:40 GMT
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We are considering adding a feature to xterm to echo the display
string on receipt of a certain escape sequence.  I am concerned that
this might open up a security hole, but can come up with no concrete
examples of how to exploit it.  Can anyone show how this might be a
problem?

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium