CVE-2022-29536

Description

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5208

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U5K5UPNHVWXDPSMBNSB2645MD2N5CXQS/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N7YWVIUGFRA6GOE3QAPSJJ6EL3DJG5NX/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GLLDMY4JYDZTMZSCPSY23K5YW3SQYUR6/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00006.html

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/1106

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3