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

CVE-2024-37676

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

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