id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc
285,Filter out special characters displayed by avahi-browse,tempuser,lennart,"avahi-set-host-name allows an user to embed terminal control characters in the host name, which are blindly output by avahi-browse, causing a remote user's terminal to interpret the control chars.

For example, setting the hostname like this:

$ avahi-set-host-name `echo -e '\007\033#8_bip_me'`

will create a host name that contains a BEL control char and and escape sequence which fills the screen with 'E' (on supported terminals). 

Somebody running avahi-browse on another computer will get something like:

$ avahi-browse -a
+ eth0 IPv4 EEEE....(lots of E's)EEEEEEEEEEEE_bip_me [00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx]               Workstation    

",enhancement,closed,Avahi 0.6.26,avahi-client,fixed,,