CVE-2012-2738
Gnome Terminal Vte Escape Sequence Denial of Service
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.
INFO
Published Date :
July 22, 2012, 4:55 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 11, 2025, 12:51 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
8.0
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github
CVE-2012-2738 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github.
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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2012-2738 vulnerability over time.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/0.32/vte-0.32.2.changes Added Reference http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/0.32/vte-0.32.2.news Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083398.html Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083403.html Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/6 Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/15/11 Added Reference http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54281 Added Reference https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676090 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 26, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Jul. 23, 2012
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2012-2738 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2012-2738
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
16.94 }} -5.86%
score
0.94425
percentile