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From Terminal Output to Arbitrary Remote Code Execution

3 years ago by solidsnail to c/security

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It was the year of the Linux desktop 1978. Old yellowed computers were not yet old, nor yellowed. Digital Equipment Corporation released the first popular terminal to support a standardized in-band encoding for control functions, the VT100.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/2466014

This is my first write-up, on a vulnerability I discovered in iTerm2 (RCE). Would love to hear opinions on this. I tried to make the writing engaging.

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