Critical VTE Vulnerability Analysis in Ubuntu USN-6833-1 to Prevent Denial of Service
Summary
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 23.10 - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: VTE could be made to consume resources and crash if it displayed specially crafted data. Software Description: - vte2.91: Terminal emulator widget for GTK Details: Siddharth Dushantha discovered that VTE incorrectly handled large window resize escape sequences. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
Update Instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libvte-2.91-0 0.76.0-1ubuntu0.1 libvte-2.91-gtk4-0 0.76.0-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 23.10 libvte-2.91-0 0.74.0-2ubuntu0.1 libvte-2.91-gtk4-0 0.74.0-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libvte-2.91-0 0.68.0-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libvte-2.91-0 0.60.3-0ubuntu1~20.5 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6833-1
CVE-2024-37535
Package Information
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte2.91/0.76.0-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte2.91/0.74.0-2ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte2.91/0.68.0-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte2.91/0.60.3-0ubuntu1~20.5