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CVE-2011-2198
medium
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@".
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/3
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html