Comment 1 for bug 1618229

This is a problem with using cat(1) or tail(1) to inspect potentially malicious files; less(1) does not interpret the control chars by default, so it's safer to use. Something like:

less +F /path/to/file
will behave similar to:
tail -f /path/to/file

For more information, see:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/11/8

Thanks