CVE-2012-2738

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-07-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

Nalin Dahyabhai Vte: through 0.32.1; 0.9.0, 0.9.2, 0.10, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.10.3 (+140)

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
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/15/11
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54281
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676090
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

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