xterm 253 DECRQSS Again?

[Dominic Fandrey]

Anon wrote:
> Hi
> 
> long ago I read about the bug in Xterm CVE-2008-2383 and updated xterm. Now
> I have the version of xterm 253 and on occasion being in xterm to run a cat
> on binary file (executable, images, etc) appear repeatedly on Shell "2c1:
> command not found". You will see in the picture you take
> 
> http://lh3.ggpht.com/_1zYIthtq7IY/S24v__tlDAI/AAAAAAAAAJk/aWhG5E3fJ4o/s800/xterm_bug.png
> 
> This can be a bug again?
> 
> Regards

Some of that binary data is probably interpreted as escape sequences.
A terminal simply isn't meant to display binary data.

Regards