Pardus alert 2011-94 (vte)

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Meltem Parmaksız <meltem@pardus.org.tr> 
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[Pardus-security] Pardus-security] [PLSA 2011-94] VTE: Memory
	Exhaustion 
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Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:28:08 +0300
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2011-94            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2011-07-11
  Severity: 1
      Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed in vte. 


Description
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CVE-2011-2198: 

An memory exhaustion flaw was found in the way VTE, a terminal emulator 
widget, processed certain character sequences. A remote attacker  could 
provide a specially-crafted file, which once opened in a terminal using 
the VTE terminal emulator  could  lead  to  excessive  memory  and  CPU 
consumption. 



Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    vte, all before 0.20.5-9-5


Resolution
==========

There are update(s) for vte. You can update them via Package Manager or 
with a single command from console: 

    pisi up vte

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=18396
  * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124#c4

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