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CVE-2011-2198

Date: May 21, 2014

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@".

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (11)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2198
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/3
https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-28&id=ac71d26f067be3a21bff315c3cabf24c94360dd6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/10
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2198
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-2198

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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