Denial of Service Vulnerability in gnome-terminal (vte) before 0.28.1

CVE-2011-2198 · LOW Severity

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

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@".

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