From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: information leak in vga console scrollback buffer
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:32:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040622153231.GA698@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040612204352.GA22347@taniwha.stupidest.org>
Hi!
> > Using the standard vga console, it is easily possible to read some
> > random pieces of texts that were scrolled out a long time ago (often
> > you can see your boot messages or similar stuff even after switcing
> > to another console or even to X. All you need is a local user access
> > to the console.
>
> Feature not bug.
Read it again. Scrollback should be cleared by console switch,
but it can be recovered using obscure escape sequence.
Time for bugtraq?
--
64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-24 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-12 20:01 information leak in vga console scrollback buffer Egmont Koblinger
2004-06-12 20:43 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-12 20:54 ` Koblinger Egmont
2004-06-12 20:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-12 21:22 ` Koblinger Egmont
2004-06-13 2:48 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2004-06-13 3:47 ` David Lang
2004-06-13 4:08 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2004-06-13 8:33 ` Koblinger Egmont
2004-06-13 10:52 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2004-06-13 11:48 ` Koblinger Egmont
2004-06-22 15:32 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-06-24 18:47 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-24 21:41 ` Pavel Machek
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20040622153231.GA698@openzaurus.ucw.cz \
--to=pavel@ucw.cz \
--cc=cw@f00f.org \
--cc=egmont@uhulinux.hu \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox