CVE-2024-37535

Publication date 9 June 2024

Last updated 19 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vte2.91	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 0.76.0-1ubuntu0.1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 0.74.0-2ubuntu0.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 0.68.0-1ubuntu0.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 0.60.3-0ubuntu1~20.5
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation

Notes

alexmurray

PoC in oss-security reply

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
vte2.91	Upstream: 1803ba8 Upstream: fd5511f Upstream: 036bc3d Upstream: c313849

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.4 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6833-1
VTE vulnerability
13 June 2024