gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-202405-27.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202405-27">
    <title>Epiphany: Buffer Overflow</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in Epiphany, which can lead to a buffer overflow.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">epiphany</product>
    <announced>2024-05-08</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-05-08</revised>
    <bug>839786</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="www-client/epiphany" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">42.4</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">42.4</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Epiphany is a GNOME webbrowser based on the Mozilla rendering engine Gecko.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in Epiphany. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>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.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Epiphany users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/epiphany-42.4"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29536">CVE-2022-29536</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-05-08T09:47:31.556833Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-05-08T09:47:31.561419Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>