CVE-2022-29536

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    CVE-2022-29536

    Published: 20 Apr 2022Last Modified: 17 Oct 2026

    Summary:

    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: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/29xxx/CVE-2022-29536.json, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GLLDMY4JYDZTMZSCPSY23K5YW3SQYUR6/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N7YWVIUGFRA6GOE3QAPSJJ6EL3DJG5NX/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U5K5UPNHVWXDPSMBNSB2645MD2N5CXQS/, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29536, https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5208, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/1106, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00006.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1ae2a647203fff7979fcced4ba6731ea79ae0ce6

    Affected versions

    42.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High