CVE-2011-2198
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 21, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- May 31, 2011
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@".
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20110609 CVE Request -- vte -- Excessive memory and CPU use by processing certain character sequencesmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-28&id=ac71d26f067be3a21bff315c3cabf24c94360dd6
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- [oss-security] 20110613 CVE Request -- vte -- Excessive memory and CPU use by processing certain character sequencesmailing-list
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0931vendor-advisory
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