In GNOME Epiphany before 41.4 and 42.x before 42.2, an HTML document can trigger a client buffer overflow (in ephy_string_shorten in the UI process) via a long page title. The issue occurs because the number of bytes for a UTF-8 ellipsis character is not properly considered.

Subscriptions

Vendors Products
Debian Linux Subscribe
Fedoraproject Subscribe
Epiphany Subscribe

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3074-1 epiphany-browser security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5208-1 epiphany-browser security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-33872 In GNOME Epiphany before 41.4 and 42.x before 42.2, an HTML document can trigger a client buffer overflow (in ephy_string_shorten in the UI process) via a long page title. The issue occurs because the number of bytes for a UTF-8 ellipsis character is not properly considered.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5561-1 GNOME Web vulnerabilities
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T06:26:06.251Z

Reserved: 2022-04-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-29536

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-04-20T23:15:08.733

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:59:17.080

Link: CVE-2022-29536

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses