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Vulnerability · Published Apr 20, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-29536

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the epiphany package (Alpine). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.0% (higher than 81% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)2.0%top 18.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20epiphany42.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-29536
Alpine:v3.21epiphany42.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-29536
Alpine:v3.22epiphany42.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-29536
Alpine:v3.23epiphany42.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-29536
Alpine:v3.24epiphany42.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-29536
Debian:12epiphany-browser42.2-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29536
Debian:13epiphany-browser42.2-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29536
Debian:14epiphany-browser42.2-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29536
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSepiphany-browser42.1-1ubuntu1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-29536
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSepiphany-browser42.1-1ubuntu1USN-5561-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References