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
> 
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