CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-2198

3.5 LOW Published 2014-05-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2014-05-21
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses: CWE-20, CWE-399

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@".

Affected configurations

• gnome gnome-terminal (<= 0.28.0) • opensuse opensuse 11.4 • opensuse opensuse 12.1 • oracle solaris 11.2

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

CWE-399

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/3 Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/10 Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-28&id=ac71d26f067be3a21bff315c3cabf24c94360dd6 Exploit, Patch
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/3 Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/10 Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-28&id=ac71d26f067be3a21bff315c3cabf24c94360dd6 Exploit, Patch