Re: Corrupt a File with "cat" ?

From: Robert Heller (heller_at_deepsoft.com)
Date: 11/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:29:21 +0100

  "elitesos@googlemail.com" <elitesos@googlemail.com>,
  In a message on 15 Nov 2005 15:15:24 -0800, wrote :

"> ok.
"> but is it possible that it could delete files, on my filesystem for
"> example?

With some terminals (real terminals, I don't know about virtual ones),
you can store a string in the terminal's local memory and later recall
it. So it might be possible for a suitably crafted binary file to do
these two steps when cat'ed to such a terminal.

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