Vulnerability CVE-2012-2738
Published: 2012-07-22   Modified: 2012-07-23

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
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
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
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