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Vulnerability record · CVE-2012-2738 · published 22 July 2012

CVE-2012-2738: Nalin dahyabhai vte memory buffer overflow vulnerability

NNalin Dahyabhai · Vte

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.

4.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 11% · top 4.2% CWE-119 · Memory buffer overflow
4.0CVSS 2.0 base score
11%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
20References, 2 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
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
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 Exploit
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676090
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
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 Exploit
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676090

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2012-2738), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.