Re: Missing patches: shelltitle & security issue

Adam Lazur <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

 

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