PT-2014-2121 · Gnome · Gnome-Terminal

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2014-05-21 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2011-2198

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.5

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gnome-terminal (vte) versions prior to 0.28.1

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, resulting in CPU and memory consumption and a crash, via a crafted file. This can be achieved by including a specific string, such as "033[100000000000000000@", in the file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.28.1, update to version 0.28.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-2198

Affected Products

Gnome-Terminal

References · 12

• 🔥 https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-28&id=ac71d26f067be3a21bff315c3cabf24c94360dd6 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2198 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2198 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-2198 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/10 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/3 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712148 · Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688 · Note
• http://oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html · Note