Re: possible gnome-terminal/vte DoS?

My first guess is it would only affect that user. Others should be ok.
Besides, I just tried it and can't get the font higher than about 72
although it says it's 12000.

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 23:34, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 13:14, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:57:38PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > It's not a DoS, right, unless this can happen as the result of a
> > > hostile attacker's actions.
> > > 
> > > It is certainly a bug.
> > 
> > Maybe I should have been more explicit -- it can happen as the result of
> > a hostile attacker's actions.
> > 
> > Imagine an attacker with physical access to the keyboard and mouse but
> > not to the computer itself (the computer itself is physically secured).
> 
> > I would expect that there are other scenarios where this could be used
> > as an attack...
> 
> What if the box was being used as an LTSP server and one of the users
> changed their font size to 12000.
> 
> Would this take down the box?  And would it be classed as a DoS?

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Chris Kloiber