CVE-2011-2198

low

Published 2014-05-21 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.5

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@".

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.1	Affected	—
11.4	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:0.28.1-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:0.28.1-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:0.28.1-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:0.28.1-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:0.28.1-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gnome	gnome-terminal	`{"endIncluding":"0.28.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-20 CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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