Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2011-2198

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - 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 memo...

RHEL 5 : vte (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - vte: DoS long loop via escape sequences with large repeat counts CVE-2012-2738 - The...

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 "\033100000000000000000@"...

CVE-2011-2198

CVE-2011-2198 affects the gnome-terminal component (vte) via the insert-blank-characters capability in caps.c, vulnerable before 0.28.1. A crafted escape sequence like "\033[100000000000000000@" can cause a DoS (high CPU/memory usage and crash) when processed by a remote authenticated user. Publi...

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 "\033100000000000000000@"...

Fedora 15 : vte-0.28.1-1.fc15 / vte3-0.28.1-1.fc15 (2011-9330)

This update fixes a possible memory exhaustion flaw in vte CVE-2011-2198. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...