From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: LC Bruzenak Subject: Re: audit 2.4.4 released Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:30:56 -0700 Message-ID: <55CE17C0.9000307@magitekltd.com> References: <1485640.eHOhO3r53z@x2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx06.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.30]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t7EGV0NV032389 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:31:00 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com (mail-pa0-f53.google.com [209.85.220.53]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7004919F234 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:30:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pabyb7 with SMTP id yb7so62820525pab.0 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.16.255.1] ([4.30.56.154]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id dm6sm6547454pdb.36.2015.08.14.09.30.56 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:30:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1485640.eHOhO3r53z@x2> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com To: linux-audit@redhat.com List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On 08/13/2015 02:30 PM, Steve Grubb wrote: > ... > > If you ausearch -i on that file, your screen will get underlines with all the > text. An attacker could change this to be worse than just underlining your > text. They could try to write to the window title and then bounce that back in > black on black text to the command prompt hoping the admin will press enter. > Wow; that's something unexpected. Thanks for this extra info Steve; I may need to backport to my version. Are these changes isolated to the ausearch/aureport code sets or inside libs? Thx, LCB -- LC Bruzenak magitekltd.com