Bug 14702 - rxvt DoS bug
Summary: rxvt DoS bug
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rxvt
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-07-27 10:05 UTC by Jarno Huuskonen
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-07-27 10:05:15 UTC
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Description Jarno Huuskonen 2000-07-27 10:05:01 UTC 
As reported in BUGTRACK you can DoS rxvt 2.6.1
with
echo -e "ESCAPE[4;65536;65536t" (where ESCAPE is \033)

rxvt seems to consume all memory and machine becomes unusable for a
while.

rxvt-2.6.3 seems to correct this bug, so you should upgrade the package.

-Jarno
Comment 1 Ngo Than 2000-07-27 11:17:07 UTC 
i have fixed the bug. Thanks for your report.

Than
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