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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:41:41 +1100
From: David Leadbeater <dgl@....cx>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: with firefox on X11, any page can pastejack you anytime

On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 at 12:58, David Leadbeater <dgl@....cx> wrote:
[...]
> Then you get a command being run with no interaction; this appears to
> work with xterm (384) + fish for example.

I missed that this is configurable in xterm, so this can be mitigated
by setting the Xresource:

disallowedPasteControls: BS,DEL,ENQ,EOT,ETX,ESC,NUL

i.e. Adding "ETX" (^C) to the default set. (I've asked if this can be
the new default.)

David

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