[flipp3r]

> If a terminal actually executed commands based on data printed to stdout, that would be a very significant vulnerability. It seems far more likely that the gibberish you're talking about is the usual mess of escape sequences.

Well, this is what happened. It was a few years ago on some IBM copy of Linux, don't know the exact system or shell. It was like Linux except most of the things you'd expect to exist on a Linux box were missing.