CVE-2012-2738
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.
- EPSS
- 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- nalin_dahyabhai:vte
References
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/0.32/vte-0.32.2.changes
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/0.32/vte-0.32.2.news
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083398.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083403.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html