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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-29536: Epiphany: Buffer Overflow

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-29536: Epiphany: Buffer Overflow

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/20/2022
Created
05/10/2024
Added
05/10/2024
Modified
05/10/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-epiphany

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