Re: possible gnome-terminal/vte DoS?

Havoc Pennington <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.limbo
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
"Barry K. Nathan" <[email protected]> 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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