CVE-2011-2198 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting gnome-terminal (vte) versions prior to 0.28.1, as well as various distributions of GNOME, OpenSUSE, and Oracle Solaris. An authenticated remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted file containing an escape sequence, leading to excessive CPU and memory consumption and a crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.5 (low severity) due to its network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.28.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome-terminal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
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