Trojan horse possible with news readers

[Boyd Roberts]

In article <576 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>
> >I don't believe that those braindamaged versions of vi will execute:
> >
> >> ex:!sh -c 'echo any command'>/tmp/NEWSBUG:
>
>They will (I tried it).

And it does on Sys V2.2 -- yuk!

And you can't unset modeline, 'cos vi claims there isn't such an option.

My kingdom for sam!  And, a jerq!


Boyd Roberts			NEC Information Systems Australia

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