| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2011-2198 (CCN-68516) | ||||||||||||
| Assigned: | 2011-06-08 | ||||||||||||
| Published: | 2011-06-08 | ||||||||||||
| Updated: | 2018-10-30 | ||||||||||||
| Summary: | 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@". | ||||||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 3.5 Low (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) 2.6 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
3.7 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-399 CWE-20 | ||||||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Denial of Service | ||||||||||||
| References: | Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2011-2198 Source: SUSE Type: Third Party Advisory openSUSE-SU-2012:0931 Source: CCN Type: libvte9 Web page libvte9 Source: CCN Type: SA45226 GNOME vte Escape Sequence Denial of Service Weakness Source: MLIST Type: Third Party Advisory [oss-security] 20110609 CVE Request -- vte -- Excessive memory and CPU use by processing certain character sequences Source: MLIST Type: Third Party Advisory [oss-security] 20110613 CVE Request -- vte -- Excessive memory and CPU use by processing certain character sequences Source: CONFIRM Type: Third Party Advisory http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 74324 GNOME vte Escape Sequence Parsing Remote DoS Source: CCN Type: BID-48645 libvte9 'vte_sequence_handler_multiple()' Function Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability Source: CONFIRM Type: Third Party Advisory https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688 Source: CONFIRM Type: Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124 Source: CCN Type: GNOME Bugzilla Bug 652124 malicious escape sequence causes gnome-terminal to exhaust memory Source: CONFIRM Type: Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148 Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN libvte9-vtesequencehandlermultiple-dos(68516) Source: CONFIRM Type: Exploit, Patch https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-28&id=ac71d26f067be3a21bff315c3cabf24c94360dd6 | ||||||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration 2: Configuration 3:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||||||
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