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  2. USN-6833-1

USN-6833-1: VTE vulnerability

Publication date

13 June 2024

Overview

VTE could be made to consume resources and crash if it displayed specially crafted data.

Releases

Packages

  • 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.

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

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
24.04 noble libvte-2.91-0 –  0.76.0-1ubuntu0.1
libvte-2.91-gtk4-0 –  0.76.0-1ubuntu0.1
23.10 mantic libvte-2.91-0 –  0.74.0-2ubuntu0.1
libvte-2.91-gtk4-0 –  0.74.0-2ubuntu0.1
22.04 jammy libvte-2.91-0 –  0.68.0-1ubuntu0.1
20.04 focal libvte-2.91-0 –  0.60.3-0ubuntu1~20.5

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