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Originally Published: Thursday, 30 September 1999 Author: Quentin Cregan
Published to: news_enhance_security/Security News Page: 1/1 - [Printable]

Kvt Bug allows for "reverse exploit"

Kvt has a buffer overflow. If the size of the new title of the window is big enough (as set by a sequence of escape codes) then the kvt will do a core dump.



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