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CVE-2011-2198 (GCVE-0-2011-2198)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-21 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:53
VLAI
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@".
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2011-06-08 00:00
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