UBUNTU-CVE-2024-37676

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-37676
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2024/UBUNTU-CVE-2024-37676.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2024-37676
Upstream
Published
2024-06-20T16:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T05:10:14Z
Severity
  • 8.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue in htop-dev htop v.2.20 allows a local attacker to cause an out-of-bounds access in the Header_populateFromSettings function.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / htop

Package

Name
htop
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/htop@2.2.0-2build1?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*
2.2.0-2
2.2.0-2build1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "priority_reason": "It is only \"exploitable\" with a malformed config file",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "htop",
            "binary_version": "2.2.0-2build1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2024/UBUNTU-CVE-2024-37676.json"