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.
References: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688 [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/showbug.cgi?id=652124