CVE-2011-2198

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

21/05/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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@".

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.50 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

3.50

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome-terminal::::::::		0.28.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.2:::::::*

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CVE-2011-2198

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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