CVE-2011-2198

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-05-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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 products

Gnome-Terminal: through 0.28.0
Opensuse: 11.4, 12.1
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2

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
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

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