CVE-2012-2738: Nalin Dahyabhai Vte

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 11.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Nalin Dahyabhai Vte: up to and including 0.32.1; version 0.9.0 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.10 only; version 0.10.1 only; version 0.10.2 only; …

Published 2012-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.