CVE-2012-2738

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 11%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJul 22

1st PoCJul 3

exploitation probability

11%top 4% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/37477

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References

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