Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-135 - A denial of service flaw was found in the way VTE, a terminal emulator widget, processed certain escape sequences with large repeat counts. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted file, which once opened in a terminal using the VTE terminal emulator could lead to excessive CPU consumption.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:135
https://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : vte
Date : April 10, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
Updated vte packages fix security vulnerability:
A denial of service flaw was found in the way VTE, a terminal emulator
widget, processed certain escape sequences with large repeat counts. A
remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted file, which once
opened in a terminal using the VTE terminal emulator could lead to
excessive CPU consumption (CVE-2012-2738).
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References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2738
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0163
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
4566a8d789bd97a1878507939912f9f9 mbs1/x86_64/lib64vte9-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
27a8bd6e01a230a99b5129e8d74a0b95 mbs1/x86_64/lib64vte-devel-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
c5b3588d44446b7735ed816d609e0efa mbs1/x86_64/lib64vte-gir0.0-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
614f4e1a8e82320438efe99803ee3ad4 mbs1/x86_64/python-vte-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
8dc2b110ae5529d791e364b72f7f4ed1 mbs1/x86_64/vte-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
e0ed7c26edf07e7a03821fc14c97da96 mbs1/SRPMS/vte-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
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