Your message dated Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:56:49 +0100
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and subject line Package powershell has been removed from Debian
has caused the Debian Bug report #318957,
regarding DoS of powershell is possible
to be marked as done.
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318957: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318957
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Package: powershell
Version: 0.9-8
Severity: normal
It seems like any program which constantly rewrites the same lines in
the terminal can cause a DoS in powershell, where the terminal is
unresponsive until the program is killed by some other means. I seem to
be able to reproduce this with dd_rescue /dev/zero /dev/null inside a
screen session inside powershell. Moving the mouse around over the
terminal will sometimes cause it to get "behind", and it never catches
up and is unresponsive until the program printing the output goes away.
This is especially inconvenient when many shells are open because the
user's entire session is stopped.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.1
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages powershell depends on:
ii gdk-imlib1 1.9.14-16.2 imaging library for use with gtk (
ii libart2 1.4.2-20 The GNOME canvas widget - runtime
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb3 3.2.9-22 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii libesd0 0.2.36-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-10 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome32 1.4.2-20 The GNOME libraries
ii libgnomesupport0 1.4.2-20 The GNOME libraries (Support libra
ii libgnomeui32 1.4.2-20 The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-17 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Input extension li
ii libzvt2 1.4.2-20 The GNOME zvt (zterm) widget
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
powershell recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.9-8+rm
You filled the bug http://bugs.debian.org/318957 in Debian BTS
against the package powershell. I'm closing it at *unstable*, but it will
remain open for older distributions.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/549396. That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
--
Marco Rodrigues
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