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Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 09:56:27 -0400
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@...thhorseman.net>
To: Robert Święcki <robert@...ecki.net>,
oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>, rxvt-unicode@...ts.schmorp.de, rxvt@...morp.de
Subject: Re: terminal emulators' processing of escape sequences
On Wed 2017-05-17 12:51:57 +0200, Robert Święcki wrote:
> Please consider the following example:
>
> $ tail -n1 /etc/hosts | xxd
> 00000000: 3132 372e 302e 302e 3309 1b47 513b 205a 127.0.0.3..GQ; Z
> 00000010: 5a5a 0a ZZ.
> $ ping ZZZ
> PING ; (127.0.0.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
> ^[G0
> 64 bytes from ; (127.0.0.3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.039 ms
> ^[G0
> 64 bytes from ; (127.0.0.3): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.032 ms
> ^[G0
> ^C
> --- ; ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1014ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.032/0.035/0.039/0.006 ms
> ^[G0
> $ 0
> bash: 0: command not found
what version of ping are you using? I was unable to replicate this with
either the debian iputils-ping package version 3:20161105-1, or with
debian inetutils-ping package version 2:1.9.4-2+b1. neither of them seem to
do a getnameinfo() at all if it is initially supplied with an IP
address.
That said, with the same last line of /etc/hosts, getent is willing
to pass along the garbage chars:
0 test@...t:~$ getent hosts 127.0.0.3
127.0.0.3 ; ZZZ
^[G0
0 test@...t:~$ 0
bash: 0: command not found
127 test@...t:~$
--dkg
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