Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2] batctl: Clear screen using ANSI escape codes

On Monday, August 20, 2012 00:08:44 Sven Eckelmann wrote:

It is not necessary to call an external binary to clear the screen of a default unix terminal emulator. The external call using system("clear") may be used by an attacker to get untrusted code called with an higher privilege because batctl has to be run as using uid 0.

Reported-by: Antonio Quartulli ordex@autistici.org Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org

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functions.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied in revision f1fff52.

Thanks, Marek