ALAS-2024-2610


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2610
Advisory Release Date: 2024-08-01 03:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-08-13 09:45 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2024-37535)


Affected Packages:

vte291


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update vte291 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    vte291-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    vte291-devel-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    vte-profile-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    vte291-debuginfo-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

i686:
    vte291-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.i686
    vte291-devel-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.i686
    vte-profile-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.i686
    vte291-debuginfo-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.i686

src:
    vte291-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    vte291-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    vte291-devel-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    vte-profile-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    vte291-debuginfo-0.52.2-2.amzn2.0.1.x86_64