vte: memory exhaustion [LWN.net]

Package(s):

vte

CVE #(s):

CVE-2011-2198

Created:

July 12, 2011

Updated:

July 25, 2011

Description:

From the Pardus advisory:

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.

Alerts:

Fedora	FEDORA-2011-9330	2011-07-15
Fedora	FEDORA-2011-9330	2011-07-15
Pardus	2011-94	2011-07-11
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:0931-1	2012-08-01

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