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vte — security advisory
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@".
- Products
- vte
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:0.28.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2011-2198
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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@".
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2198
vte
Fixed versions: 1:0.28.1-1
vte
Fixed versions: 1:0.28.1-1
vte
Fixed versions: 1:0.28.1-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:35.878528575Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2014-05-21T14:55:05.537+00:00"
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