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Gentoo: GLSA-202405-27 Normal Severity: Epiphany Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2024
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Explore the security flaw identified in Epiphany, detailed in advisory GLSA 202405-27, and understand the importance of prompt updates.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Epiphany, which can lead to a buffer overflow.

Summary

A vulnerability has been discovered in Epiphany. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo buffer overflow epiphany normal severity

Resolution

All Epiphany users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/epiphany-42.4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2022-29536 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29536

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202405-27
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Epiphany: Buffer Overflow
Date: May 08, 2024
Bugs: #839786
ID: 202405-27

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Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in Epiphany, which can lead to a buffer overflow.

Background

Epiphany is a GNOME webbrowser based on the Mozilla rendering engine Gecko.

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Affected Packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected ------------------- ------------ ------------ www-client/epiphany < 42.4 >= 42.4

Impact

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

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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