Alpine: vte: security update to 0.28.2-r11 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400849

Description

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)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400849

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.09

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-2738

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2738

BID: 54281

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