Re: possible gnome-terminal/vte DoS?

[Michael Rothwell <rothwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Has the gnome-terminal memory leak been fixed? I've been trying to get
up2date for a while, but the server's always too busy.


On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:57, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com> writes:
> > I haven't tried this with the latest vte yet, so I don't know if this
> > still has a rather bad effect, but try setting the font size in
> > gnome-terminal to 12000 and see what happens... (Make sure you've saved
> > any valuable data first!)
> > 
> 
> It's not a DoS, right, unless this can happen as the result of a
> hostile attacker's actions.
> 
> It is certainly a bug.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
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