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CVE-2024-37535

Published: 9 June 2024

GNOME VTE before 0.76.3 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a window resize escape sequence, a related issue to CVE-2000-0476.

Notes

AuthorNote
alexmurray
PoC in oss-security reply

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
vte2.91
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal
Released (0.60.3-0ubuntu1~20.5)
jammy
Released (0.68.0-1ubuntu0.1)
mantic
Released (0.74.0-2ubuntu0.1)
noble
Released (0.76.0-1ubuntu0.1)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

Patches:
upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/commit/1803ba866053a3d7840892b9d31fe2944a183eda
upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/commit/fd5511f24b7269195a7083f409244e9787c705dc
upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/commit/036bc3ddcbb56f05c6ca76712a53b89dee1369e2
upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/commit/c313849c2e5133802e21b13fa0b141b360171d39