VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2738

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Published 2012-07-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37477 dos linux verified
Kevin Fenzi · 2012-07-03

gnome-terminal (vte) VteTerminal - Escape Sequence Parsing Remote Denial of Service

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:0.28.2-5
debian debianbullseyefixed1:0.28.2-5
debian debianforkyfixed1:0.28.2-5
debian debiansidfixed1:0.28.2-5
debian debiantrixiefixed1:0.28.2-5

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
nalin_dahyabhaivte{"endIncluding":"0.32.1"}
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.9.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.9.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.5
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.6
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.7
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.8
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.9
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.10
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.11
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.12
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.13
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.14
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.15
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.16
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.17
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.19
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.20
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.21
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.22
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.23
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.25
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.26
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.27
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.28
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.10.29
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.5
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.6
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.7
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.8
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.9
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.10
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.11
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.12
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.13
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.14
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.15
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.16
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.17
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.18
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.19
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.20
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.11.21
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.12.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.12.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.12.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.13.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.13.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.13.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.13.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.13.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.13.5
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.13.6
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.13.7
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.14.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.14.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.14.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.15.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.15.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.15.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.15.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.15.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.15.5
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.15.6
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.5
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.6
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.7
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.8
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.9
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.10
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.11
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.12
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.13
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.16.14
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.17.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.17.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.17.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.17.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.19.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.19.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.19.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.19.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.20.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.20.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.20.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.20.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.20.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.20.5
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.21.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.21.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.21.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.21.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.21.5
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.21.6
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.21.7
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.22.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.22.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.22.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.22.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.22.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.22.5
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.23.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.23.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.23.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.23.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.23.5
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.24.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.24.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.24.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.24.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.25.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.25.90
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.25.91
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.26.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.26.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.26.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.27.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.27.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.27.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.27.3
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.27.4
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.27.5
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.27.90
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.28.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.28.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.28.2
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.29.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.29.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.30.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.30.1
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.31.0
nalin_dahyabhaivte0.32.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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