CVE-2012-2738 (GCVE-0-2012-2738)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-07-22 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:42
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-05-15 00:00
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