Resource exhaustion in vte - CVE-2024-37535

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Resource exhaustion in vte - CVE-2024-37535

Published: June 22, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU93078
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-37535
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling window resize escape sequence. A local user can consume all available memory resources and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

vte
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
Fedora
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS
Desktop Applications Module
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Anolis OS
vte
vte-devel
typelib-1_0-Vte-2.91
libvte-2_91-0
libvte-2_91-0-debuginfo
vte-lang
vte-debugsource
vte291-debugsource
vte291-devel
vte291-debuginfo
vte291
vte-debuginfo
vte-tools-debuginfo
glade-catalog-vte
vte-tools
vte291-help
vte291-gtk4-devel
vte291-gtk4
vte-profile
vte-tools-gtk4
typelib-1_0-Vte-2_91
typelib-1_0-Vte-3_91
vte-tools-gtk4-debuginfo

How to mitigate CVE-2024-37535

Install updates from vendor's website.

vte - update to 0.76.3
vte - update to 0.28.2-42.el7
vte-devel - addressed in versions 0.44.2-9.6.1, 0.58.3-150200.3.3.1, 0.66.2-150400.3.5.1, 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
typelib-1_0-Vte-2.91 - addressed in versions 0.44.2-9.6.1, 0.58.3-150200.3.3.1, 0.66.2-150400.3.5.1
libvte-2_91-0 - addressed in versions 0.44.2-9.6.1, 0.58.3-150200.3.3.1, 0.66.2-150400.3.5.1, 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
libvte-2_91-0-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.44.2-9.6.1, 0.58.3-150200.3.3.1, 0.66.2-150400.3.5.1, 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
vte-lang - addressed in versions 0.44.2-9.6.1, 0.58.3-150200.3.3.1, 0.66.2-150400.3.5.1, 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
vte-debugsource - addressed in versions 0.44.2-9.6.1, 0.58.3-150200.3.3.1, 0.66.2-150400.3.5.1, 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
vte291-debugsource - addressed in versions 0.54.1-6, 0.62.3-2, 0.72.2-2
vte291-devel - addressed in versions 0.54.1-6, 0.62.3-2, 0.72.2-2
vte291-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.54.1-6, 0.62.3-2, 0.72.2-2
vte291 - addressed in versions 0.54.1-6, 0.62.3-2, 0.72.2-2
vte-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.58.3-150200.3.3.1, 0.66.2-150400.3.5.1, 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
vte-tools-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.66.2-150400.3.5.1, 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
glade-catalog-vte - update to 0.66.2-150400.3.5.1
vte-tools - addressed in versions 0.66.2-150400.3.5.1, 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
vte291-help - update to 0.72.2-2
vte291-gtk4-devel - update to 0.74.0-3
vte291-gtk4 - update to 0.74.0-3
vte291-devel - update to 0.74.0-3
vte291 - update to 0.74.0-3
vte-profile - update to 0.74.0-3
vte-tools-gtk4 - update to 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
typelib-1_0-Vte-2_91 - update to 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
typelib-1_0-Vte-3_91 - update to 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
vte-tools-gtk4-debuginfo - update to 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1

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