Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:32:32 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: information leak in vga console scrollback buffer |
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Hi!
> > Using the standard vga console, it is easily possible to read some > > random pieces of texts that were scrolled out a long time ago (often > > you can see your boot messages or similar stuff even after switcing > > to another console or even to X. All you need is a local user access > > to the console. > > Feature not bug.
Read it again. Scrollback should be cleared by console switch, but it can be recovered using obscure escape sequence.
Time for bugtraq?
-- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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