CVE-2011-2198
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.16% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-05-21 14:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 22:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2011-05-31
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c7e4707addd1fa5a6a94eb9a70dcba9ec3e97c8437a3111146d9fba5f227080d
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20110609 CVE Request -- vte -- Excessive memory and CPU use by processing certain character sequenceshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/3
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148
- bugzilla.gnome.orghttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124
- git.gnome.orghttps://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-28&id=ac71d26f067be3a21bff315c3cabf24c94360dd6
- bugs.debian.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20110613 CVE Request -- vte -- Excessive memory and CPU use by processing certain character sequenceshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/10
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2012:0931http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- vte Fixed in 1:0.28.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- vte Fixed in 1:0.28.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- vte Fixed in 1:0.28.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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