cve/2011/CVE-2011-2198.md

CVE-2011-2198

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@".

POC

Reference

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.