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CVE-2011-2198

Published: May 21, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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@".

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20110609 CVE Request -- vte -- Excessive memory and CPU use by processing certain character sequences

mailing-list

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124

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https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-28&id=ac71d26f067be3a21bff315c3cabf24c94360dd6

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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688

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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

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[oss-security] 20110613 CVE Request -- vte -- Excessive memory and CPU use by processing certain character sequences

mailing-list

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openSUSE-SU-2012:0931

vendor-advisory

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