CVE-2011-2198

Published May 21, 2014

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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@".
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
3.5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
6.8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-20

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations