CVE-2012-2738 - Photoperiodic Gyroscope

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.

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/6 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676090 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/0.32/vte-0.32.2.news http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54281 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083398.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083403.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/15/11 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/0.32/vte-0.32.2.changes http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html