CVE-2024-37535 — GNOME VTE before 0

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-06-09T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T03:57:39.612Z

09References

• gitlab.gnome.org — https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/2786
• gitlab.gnome.org — https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/tags/0.76.3
• www.openwall.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/1
• www.openwall.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/2