How to increase scrollback for FreeBSD-4.10
Mike
addymin at pacbell.net
Tue Aug 17 08:00:46 PDT 2004
stheg olloydson wrote:
> you said:
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>>I have a FBSD-4.10 system that I log into using PuTTY (on a Win2K
>>workstation). I am able to set PuTTY's scrollback to 1200 lines.
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> Hello,
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> Unfortunately, I do not have a solution to your problem. I just wanted
> to pass along some information concerning PuTTY from a security news
> letter to which I subscribe:
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>>04.31.4 CVE: Not Available
>>Platform: Third Party Windows Apps
>>Title: PuTTY Remote Buffer Overflow
>>Description: PuTTY is a free Telnet and SSH client. It has been
>>reported that PuTTY is subject to a pre-authentication buffer overflow
>>that can allow malicious servers to execute code on a client machine
>>as it attempts to negotiate connection. PuTTY 0.54 and previous
>>versions are vulnerable.
>>Ref:
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> http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=417&idxseccion=10
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> Note that the URL may have wrapped.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stheg
Stehg
Thanks for the security note/update on putty! I'm using version 5.5 now.
Michael
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