Re: CVE Request -- vte -- Excessive memory and CPU use by processing certain character sequences

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> Hello, Josh, Steve, vendors,
>
> An memory exhaustion flaw was found in the way VTE, a terminal
> emulator widget, processed certain character sequences. A remote
> attacker could provide a specially-crafted file, which once opened
> in a terminal using the VTE terminal emulator could lead to excessive
> memory and CPU consumption (leading to subsequent particular process
> termination by OOM killer on some systems).
>
> References:
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148

Please use CVE-2011-2198.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB