CVE-2022-29536

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 2.05 % · percentile 81 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-04-20
Updated: 2024-08-03
Assigner: mitre
NVD status: Modified

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.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-33872
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-29536

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2024-AVI-0119 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Siemens · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:gnome:epiphany:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 41.4
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:epiphany:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 42.0 < 42.2
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
	affected n/a

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD