MGASA-2022-0382 - Updated epiphany packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 23 Oct 2022 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0382.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 8 CVE: CVE-2022-29536 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) References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30365 - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/GLLDMY4JYDZTMZSCPSY23K5YW3SQYUR6/ - https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5561-1 - https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5208 - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29536 SRPMS: - 8/core/epiphany-3.38.2-1.2.mga8
Mageia 2022-0382: epiphany security update
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
Summary
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)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30365
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/GLLDMY4JYDZTMZSCPSY23K5YW3SQYUR6/
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5561-1
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5208
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29536
Resolution
MGASA-2022-0382 - Updated epiphany packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 8/core/epiphany-3.38.2-1.2.mga8
Severity
Publication date: 23 Oct 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0382.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-29536
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