It looks like plain-old /usr/bin/xterm is not affected, though, and it should be available universally. Might want to use that for a while if you're concerned about an exploit.
Chris Knadle wrote: > Aww, crap. :-( > > Terminal emultators Gnome terminal, Xfce Terminal, Terminator, Guake, and > anything based on the libvte library write the scrollback buffer to disk. I > take that to mean that your ssh sessions get written to disk if you have > scrollback buffer active. :-( > > And in the video it's explained that konsole (the terminal emulator in KDE) > also writes its scrollback buffer to disk too, but with some kind of weak > encoding. > > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/08/1441215/data-breach-flaw-found-in- > gnome-terminal-xfce-terminal-and-terminator > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Apr 4 - An Intro to Chef > May 2 - May 2012 Meeting > Jun 6 - June 2012 Meeting > ============================================================================= michaelMuller = [email protected] | http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not willing to control your own mind, there are plenty of other people who are willing to do it for you. ============================================================================= _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Apr 4 - An Intro to Chef May 2 - Git Jun 6 - June 2012 Meeting
