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medium 4.4

CVE-2024-37535 json

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…

published 2024-06-09 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-36736

cvss
4.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • vte2.91 Debian 14, Debian 13 0.76.3-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-37535

  • vte2.91 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 0.60.3-0ubuntu1~20.5
  • vte2.91 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 0.68.0-1ubuntu0.1
  • vte2.91 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 0.76.0-1ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-37535

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • vte SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP5 +6 more 0.66.2-150400.3.5.1
  • vte SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.74.2-150600.3.3.1
  • vte SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS +4 more 0.58.3-150200.3.3.1
  • vte SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.44.2-9.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:2180-1SUSE-SU-2024:2153-1SUSE-SU-2024:2152-1SUSE-SU-2024:2151-1

  • vte openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.76.3-3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14284-1

  • vte291 CBL-Mariner 2.0 0.66.2-3
  • vte291 Azure Linux 3.0 0.74.2-6

azure linux advisories AZL-42631AZL-43167

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-37535 updated cvss 5.5

vte: Denial of service via window resize escape sequence

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 vte Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 vte3, vte291, vte-profile
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 vte291, vte-profile Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 vte291, vte-profile
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 vte291
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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