CVE-2011-2198: Gnome Gnome-Terminal

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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@".

Affected products

• Gnome Gnome-Terminal: up to and including 0.28.0
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.4 only; version 12.1 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.2 only

Published 2014-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.