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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2012-2738)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2012-2738)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-10 (Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2012)

    Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below.
      Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details.
      EGroupware       VTE       Layer Four Traceroute (LFT)       Suhosin       Slock       Ganglia       Jabber to GaduGadu Gateway   Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges,       execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, obtain sensitive       information, or otherwise bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Add vte-CVE-2012-2738.patch: fix potential DoS through malicious escape sequences. Fix bnc#772761, CVE-2012-2738.

- Add vte-CVE-2011-2198.patch: fix memory exhaustion     through malicious escape sequences. Fix bnc#699214,     CVE-2011-2198 (openSUSE 11.4 only).

  - Add vte-CVE-2012-2738.patch: fix potential DoS through     malicious escape sequences. Fix bnc#772761,     CVE-2012-2738.

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).

Fix for python bindings issues, and fix for CVE-2012-2738

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Fix to python bindings and a fix for CVE-2012-2738

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
217665	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2012-2738	Nessus	Misc.	high
407540	Alpine: vte: security update to 0.28.2-r12	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
407540	Alpine: vte: security update to 0.28.2-r12	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
400849	Alpine: vte: security update to 0.28.2-r11 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
400849	Alpine: vte: security update to 0.28.2-r11 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
79963	GLSA-201412-10 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2012	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
74697	openSUSE Security Update : gnome-terminal (openSUSE-SU-2012:0933-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
74696	openSUSE Security Update : vte/gnome-terminal (openSUSE-SU-2012:0931-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
66147	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : vte (MDVSA-2013:135)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
59842	Fedora 17 : vte-0.28.2-6.fc17 (2012-9575)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
59841	Fedora 16 : vte-0.28.2-6.fc16 (2012-9546)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2012-2738

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