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vte: denial of service

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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