Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2738

Title: Nalin Dahyabhai Vte Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2012-2738

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Jul 22, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

11.15%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-2738: 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.

Impacted Vendors

nalin_dahyabhai 1

Reference Links

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-2738 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37477

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 22, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.