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1997 May 14
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cxterm buffer overrun
cxterm is a Chinese terminal emulator for the X Window System. It''s installed as suid-root by default if you did a make install. Just like xterm, it does needs to be suid to update /etc/utmp...blahblah... I discovered some buffer overflow bugs in it. The code attached below is the exploit. Quick fix? chmod -s /path/cxterm