CVEs-PoC/2012/CVE-2012-2738.md

CVE-2012-2738

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example