Denial of Service Vulnerability in VteTerminal of gnome-terminal

Denial of Service Vulnerability in VteTerminal of gnome-terminal

CVE-2012-2738 · MEDIUM Severity

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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.

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