Re: LYNX-DEV VU#5135 (Lynx vulnerability?) (fwd)

[Duncan Hill]

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Scott McGee (Personal) wrote:

> Larry mentioned getting an error when trying the CERT URL's on his system.
> On my system I tried both. The first one started a /bin/sh that would not 
> respond to most keys. I assume from an earlier post that there is a way to
> get it to so respond, and hence gain access on the machine. The second URL

Well, the <enter> key seems to cause the shell to barf (perhaps cause
/dev/null is root.root), but ^j works fine and dandy.

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Duncan Hill
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