CVE-2011-2198

gnome-terminal < 0.28.0 - Denial of Service via Insert-Blank-Characters Capability

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The "insert-blank-characters" capability in caps.c in gnome-terminal (vte) before 0.28.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption and crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by a file containing the string "\033[100000000000000000@".

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/3
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/10
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0084
EPSS Percentile 74.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-20 CWE-399
Status published
Products (4)
gnome/gnome-terminal < 0.28.0
opensuse/opensuse 11.4
opensuse/opensuse 12.1
oracle/solaris 11.2
Published May 21, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026