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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-135

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-135
Posted Apr 11, 2013
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-135 - 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.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2012-2738
SHA-256 | e3f5ef60d5477ce05131f3eb0b277c6d94fdd9af25380ce161b4c9097b78ade8

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-135

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:135
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : vte
Date : April 10, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

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).
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2738
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0163
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
4566a8d789bd97a1878507939912f9f9 mbs1/x86_64/lib64vte9-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
27a8bd6e01a230a99b5129e8d74a0b95 mbs1/x86_64/lib64vte-devel-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
c5b3588d44446b7735ed816d609e0efa mbs1/x86_64/lib64vte-gir0.0-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
614f4e1a8e82320438efe99803ee3ad4 mbs1/x86_64/python-vte-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
8dc2b110ae5529d791e364b72f7f4ed1 mbs1/x86_64/vte-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
e0ed7c26edf07e7a03821fc14c97da96 mbs1/SRPMS/vte-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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