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.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202405-27 (Epiphany: Buffer Overflow)

  - 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. (CVE-2022-29536)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3074 advisory.

  - XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 via an about: page, as     demonstrated by ephy-about:overview when a user visits an XSS payload page often enough to place that page     on the Most Visited list. (CVE-2021-45085)

  - XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 when View Source mode or Reader     mode is used, as demonstrated by a a page title. (CVE-2021-45087)

  - XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 via an error page.
    (CVE-2021-45088)

  - 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. (CVE-2022-29536)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5208 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2022-29536)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5561-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GNOME Web incorrectly filtered certain strings. A remote attacker could use this     issue to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2021-45085, CVE-2021-45086, CVE-2021-45087)

    It was discovered that GNOME Web incorrectly handled certain long page titles. A remote attacker could use     this issue to cause GNOME Web to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2022-29536)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
195164	GLSA-202405-27 : Epiphany: Buffer Overflow	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
164279	Debian DLA-3074-1 : epiphany-browser - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
164169	Debian DSA-5208-1 : epiphany-browser - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
164146	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : GNOME Web vulnerabilities (USN-5561-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

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