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I haven’t seen that yet. Do you have a link saying that you have to select text? That would help a lot in the mean time if true.


See https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/09/7 :

> To reproduce in XTerm, decode the file then try to select the line.

For the original report on screen, see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2021-02/msg0... (warning, contains the raw test case, may crash a text-based browser).


https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_366

Specifically, the overflow is in the upper limit of the text selection buffer when characters are combined in UTF-8.




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