vte: denial of service [LWN.net]

Package(s):

vte

CVE #(s):

CVE-2012-2738

Created:

July 3, 2012

Updated:

April 11, 2013

Description:

From the Red Hat bugzilla:

A denial of service flaw was found in the way VTE, a terminal emulator widget, processed certain escape sequences with large repeat counts. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted file, which once opened in a terminal using the VTE terminal emulator could lead to excessive CPU consumption.

Alerts:

Fedora	FEDORA-2012-9575	2012-07-03
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-9546	2012-07-03
Mageia	MGASA-2012-0163	2012-07-14
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:0931-1	2012-08-01
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:0933-1	2012-08-01
Mandriva	MDVSA-2013:135	2013-04-10

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