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Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 04:03:24 +0200
From: Shiz <hi@...z.me>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: terminal emulators' processing of escape sequences
> On 1 May 2017, at 18:44, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I did not record which terminal emulators did not crash
> for me. However, Jason recorded both kinds of results for him, coming
> up with:
>
> Konsole: no crash
> Xterm: no crash
> rxvt: crash
> Yakuake: no crash
> Mosh (which is a terminal emulator, after all): no crash
> Screen: 100% CPU usage --> DoS
> rxvt-unicode: no crash
> Qterminal: no crash
> putty: no crash
>
> This adds "screen" to terminal emulators with problematic processing of
> terminal escapes. Due to minor known impact, we did not handle this
> under embargo - it should be investigated and fixed now, in public.
Despite not being open source and thus unfit for the list, I can confirm this
also causes high CPU usage for macOS Terminal.app, version 2.7.1 (387),
as shipped on macOS 10.12.1.
- Shiz
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