CVE-2011-2198

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@".

Score

CVSS 2.0 3.5 Low

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2014-05-21

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-20, CWE-399

Affected products

• Gnome-terminal (Gnome)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)
• Solaris (Oracle)

References

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