Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-2198

Title: Gnome Gnome-Terminal Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-2198.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date May 21, 2014

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.16%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-2198: 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@".

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/10 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148 https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-28&id=ac71d26f067be3a21bff315c3cabf24c94360dd6 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/10 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148 https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-28&id=ac71d26f067be3a21bff315c3cabf24c94360dd6

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-2198 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 21, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.