CVE-2012-2738

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 packages (2)

• Alpine/vtefrom 0, < 0.28.2-r12
• Debian/vtefrom 0, < 1:0.28.2-5

References (2)

• ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2012-2738
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2738