DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29536

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-29536
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29536.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29536
Upstream
Downstream
Published
2022-04-20T23:15:08Z
Modified
2026-09-01T20:04:44Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / epiphany-browser

Package

Name
epiphany-browser
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/epiphany-browser?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
42.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29536.json"

Debian:13 / epiphany-browser

Package

Name
epiphany-browser
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/epiphany-browser?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
42.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29536.json"

Debian:14 / epiphany-browser

Package

Name
epiphany-browser
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/epiphany-browser?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
42.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29536.json"