CVE-2012-2738
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 11.24% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2012-07-22 16:00Z14 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 19:42Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-05-14
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5d581a9bcaff1b70c24551b8892e64f5cde901c8da429334c3d176d99c2c2a59
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2012-9575http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083403.html
- bugzilla.gnome.orghttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676090
- ftp.gnome.orghttp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/0.32/vte-0.32.2.changes
- ftp.gnome.orghttp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/0.32/vte-0.32.2.news
- www.securityfocus.com54281http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54281
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20120615 Re: CVE Request -- mosh (and probably vte too): mosh server DoS (long loop) due improper parsing of terminal parameters in terminal dispatcherhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/15/11
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20120522 Re: CVE Request -- mosh (and probably vte too): mosh server DoS (long loop) due improper parsing of terminal parameters in terminal dispatcherhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/6
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2012:0931http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2012-9546http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083398.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- vte Fixed in 1:0.28.2-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- vte Fixed in 1:0.28.2-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- vte Fixed in 1:0.28.2-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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