CVE-2012-2738 in Vte

Summary

The VteTerminal in gnome-terminal (vte) before 0.32.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (long loop and CPU consumption) via an escape sequence with a large repeat count value.

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• Reservation: 05/14/2012
• Disclosure: 07/22/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-61375
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 4.3
• EPSS: 0.18040
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2738
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2738
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-2738/