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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{'score': 0.16942}

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{'score': 0.18222}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:42:32.368Z

Reserved: 2012-05-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-2738

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-07-22T16:55:25.743

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-2738

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-2738 - Bugzilla

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