Re: Missing patches: shelltitle & security issue
Adam Lazur <[email protected]>
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Felix Rosencrantz ([email protected]) said: > Tony Tung around May 1, 2003 sent a shelltitle patch, that never seems to have > been incorporated into screen. It would be nice if this patch could be > included. Tony explained the problem in the same thread. Other confused users > tried erroneously to explain that it wasn't broken. It would be great if > Tony's patch was added. I don't know about this one... I'd suspect that changing the shelltitle on the fly is a very very small minority case. That may be why it hasn't been applied? > Also Timo Sirainen posted a patch for potential security hole around Oct 24, > 2003, which he claims is still not fixed. This hole is one of the big items > that shows up when you query Google for "gnu screen". > > It would be great if these changes or equivalent changes were added to the next > release of screen. Which version of screen are you examining? Version 4.0.2, which includes the security fix, has been out since Dec 5th. It isn't clearly marked as a security thing in patchlevel.h though, so maybe that's where the confusion is coming from? -- Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gnu-screen/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/