Medium: vte291

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  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2024-37535

Mitre: CVE-2024-37535