Bug 832356 (CVE-2012-2738) - CVE-2012-2738 vte: DoS (long loop) via escape sequences with large repeat counts
Summary: CVE-2012-2738 vte: DoS (long loop) via escape sequences with large repeat counts
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2012-2738
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 832357
Blocks: 823966
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-15 08:52 UTC by Stefan Cornelius
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:53 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: vte 0.32.2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-04-07 11:22:54 UTC
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Description Stefan Cornelius 2012-06-15 08:52:05 UTC 
A denial of service flaw was found in the way VTE, a terminal emulator
widget, processed certain escape sequences with large repeat counts.
A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted file, which once
opened in a terminal using the VTE terminal emulator could lead to
excessive CPU consumption.

References:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673871#5
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676090 
[3] http://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?id=feeee4b5832b17641e505b7083e0d299fdae318e
[4] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/0.32/vte-0.32.2.news
[5] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/22/6
Comment 1 Stefan Cornelius 2012-06-15 08:54:06 UTC 
Created vte tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 832357]
Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2012-06-16 07:04:18 UTC 
A CVE identifier of CVE-2012-2738 has been assigned to this issue:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/15/11
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-07-03 15:51:49 UTC 
vte-0.28.2-6.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-07-03 15:53:41 UTC 
vte-0.28.2-6.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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