Vulnerability CVE-2011-2198
Published: 2014-05-21

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@".

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.5/10
2.9/10
6.8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Oracle -> Solaris 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Gnome -> Gnome-terminal 

 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
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