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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-2738

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-2738

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/22/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/12/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-glade-catalog-vte
  • suse-upgrade-glade3-catalog-vte
  • suse-upgrade-gnome-pty-helper
  • suse-upgrade-gnome-pty-helper-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-libvte2_90-9
  • suse-upgrade-libvte2_90-9-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-libvte9
  • suse-upgrade-libvte9-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-python-vte
  • suse-upgrade-python-vte-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-vte
  • suse-upgrade-vte-debugsource
  • suse-upgrade-vte-devel
  • suse-upgrade-vte-lang
  • suse-upgrade-vte-tools
  • suse-upgrade-vte-tools-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-vte2
  • suse-upgrade-vte2-debugsource
  • suse-upgrade-vte2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-vte2-lang
  • suse-upgrade-vte2-tools
  • suse-upgrade-vte2-tools-debuginfo

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