CVE-2012-2385 Information

Description

The terminal dispatcher in mosh before 1.2.1 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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082766.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082814.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082850.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49260 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/22/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53646 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823943 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75779 https://github.com/keithw/mosh/blob/master/ChangeLog https://github.com/keithw/mosh/commit/9791768705528e911bfca6c4d8aa88139035060e https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/271