Name | 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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-3074-1, DSA-5208-1 |
Debian Bugs | 1009959 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
epiphany-browser (PTS) | buster | 3.32.1.2-3~deb10u1 | vulnerable |
buster (security) | 3.32.1.2-3~deb10u2 | fixed | |
bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.38.2-1+deb11u3 | fixed | |
bookworm, sid | 43.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
epiphany-browser | source | stretch | (not affected) | |||
epiphany-browser | source | buster | 3.32.1.2-3~deb10u2 | DLA-3074-1 | ||
epiphany-browser | source | bullseye | 3.38.2-1+deb11u3 | DSA-5208-1 | ||
epiphany-browser | source | (unstable) | 42.2-1 | 1009959 |
[stretch] - epiphany-browser <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/1106
Introduced by: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/commit/232c613472b38ff0d0d97338f366024ddb9cd228 (3.29.2)
Fixed by: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/commit/486da133569ebfc436c959a7419565ab102e8525